TECHNICAL FICHE

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L'ENFANT

• TECHNICAL FICHE

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• Film and scenes directoryJean-Pierre and Luc
  Dardenne
• ActorsJèrèmie Renier,Débora François
• Photografy directorAlain Marcoen
• OperatorBenoit Dervaux
• MixageThomas Gauder
• ProductorJean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne,Denis
  Freyd

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NEWS ABOUT

• Jean Pierre Dardenne was born in 1951 in
  Angis,Belgium.
• Luc Dardenne was born in 1954 in
  Awirs,Belgium.
• Thanks to their DV Devires production
  factory they have realized more or less sixty
  documentaries .They start their career on the big
  screen with FALSCH (1987) followed by JE
  PENSE VOUS (1991) ,THE PROMISE (1996),
  ROSETTA(1999),LENFANT(2002),winner of the golden
  palmers of the 58festival in Cannes.

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PLOT

• Bruno,aged 20,lives on his wits and small
  thefts.Sonia is 18 and has just got a babyfor
  the young mother that son represent
• her trophy, a muppet (baby-doll),but for the
  father doesnt represent neither that.One
  day,while Sonias waiting for a queue have the
  unemployement benefit,Bruno takes his child and
  calls some criminals to sell him.An act that
  seems to break every complicity closeness,every
  love between them forever.Condemned to his
  foolish and hopeless life,finally Bruno starts to
  understand.

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STORY

• A camera undelines the two adolescent moving
  around an unknown and dark gray city. A perpetual
  motion, a camera that follows moving itself too,
  like tryig not to lose neithe a gesture just
  chalked out, these are the protagonists. But
  maybe he real protagonist of the stoy is the
  camera, that with absolute absence of judgement
  restricts itself to make the fects plain and
  real. The total absence of musi makes the few
  melodies more meaningful. Althoug it has a
  setting that coincides with the one of the
  documentary. This movie passes through a strand
  of signs which suggest what the protagonist dont
  want to say. The end is a magic strong and
  meaningful moment.

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The film could be divaded into three blocks

• A new family
• A vile gesture Bruno a childisc faher
• Bruno finally a man

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THE CENTRAL IDEA

• Lenfant is a very hard, ummerciful film that
  knows how to photograph without hearts and
  flowers a youthful world, but that give some
  hopes or possibilities of redemption accurred
  just through private feelings and not for some
  acts of colletive solidariety.