Recommended for: AS and A2 Film and Media students
Capacity: 158 places
The Dardennes Brothers currently vie with Ken Loach as the most celebrated filmmakers in Europe. Like Loach they specialise in a form of social realism but their films are all set in the old industrial towns of the Meuse Valley in Southern Belgium. Most of these films have stories focusing on young people in a ‘post-industrial’ environment.
This event will explore a unique style of filmmaking and will include a full screening of The Kid With a Bike.
Led by Roy Stafford, Freelance Film Educator.
Screening: The Kid with a Bike (Le gamin au vélo) 12A
Dirs Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne/Belgium, France, Italy 2011/ 87 mins/ In French with English subtitlesCécile de France, Thomas Doret, Jérémie Renier, Fabrizio Rongione, Egon di Mateo
This unflinching piece of European realism marks the anticipated return of Belgian brothers and double Palme d’or winners Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. Eleven-year-old Cyril has been abandoned by his father (played by Dardenne regular Jérémie Renier) and struggles to keep his pent-up anger under control. On one of his regular attempts to run away from his children’s home the troubled youngster meets Samantha, a local hairdresser who takes him under her wing.