beautiful dreamer is a 2006 romantic drama film directed by terri farley teruel .

the film stars brooke langton and colin egglesfield as childhood sweethearts who become husband and wife as america enters world war ii .

beautiful dreamer is loosely based on real-life events that occurred on a consolidated b-24 liberator bombing mission during world war ii and the aftermath of the war as it affected a small family .

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beautiful dreamer ( 2006 film ) <EOT> beautiful dreamer : beautiful movie . includes beautiful dreamer exclusive interviews : “let your heart fly” with terri farley - teruel and “romantic & classy” with colin egglesfield by madelyn ritrosky ( 4 / 16 / 07 )

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when willis and dorothy miller first heard the pitch for “beautiful dreamer , ” they couldn’t help being struck by how familiar it felt .

parallels : dorothy and willis miller of westminster have their own love story , and it’s similar to the one told in “beautiful dreamer . ”

willis and dorothy’s original link to hollywood was through their son - in - law brad sublett , who knew a producer of the “beautiful dreamer” project .

terri farley ' s romanticdrama beautiful dreamer will openthe 2006 temecula valley international film & music festival on sept 13 . the festival , which runs sept 13 to 17 , will also screen the short west bankstory on opening night , a musicalcomedy about an israeli soldier and a palestinian girl torn between their lovefor each other .

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" temecula is wonderful . … the wineries were beautiful , " she said . " i had heard it was a small napa . "

so , when “dreamer” – with its nostalgic story of a dramatic era in their own lives – later ran into trouble , the family had resources to invest more .

a love story at its heart , “dreamer” also carries lessons on the hardships families undergo during war , a point willis thinks is one reason why people enjoy it .

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as for willis and dorothy , executive producers for the film , after seeing it at the temecula film festival , they came away moved .

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18 the lyrics of the paul mccartney song were composed specifically for the film .

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“beautiful dreamer” is a great war movie that focuses on the love of a wife who refuses to believe that her husband is lost at war . the movie is very clean as far as war movies go . the viewer does not see much violence and the producer keeps the focus mainly on the couple instead of the war . the woman shows great strength and hope in the film and determination to find her husband . refusing to believe that he was gone , she sets out to find him .

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“i’m honored about this tribute , ” cruz says . “it’s a beautiful thing that i wasn’t expecting . i hope i can come up with some fun memories to share with everyone so that it’s not boring for the attendees . ”

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, hiroko yamamura said the film " was a game changer in the world of anime feature films " .

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the opening credits unroll against a beautiful seascape ; but this turns out to be a dream , which ends in drowning — we cut to the dreamer , lincoln ( ewan mcgregor ) , as he lies gasping in his pristine white pajamas in an all - white room . the stark - white factory - dorm he inhabits is supposedly a refuge from a contaminated outer world ; clone workers like him are kept productive by the hope of winning the lottery that allows the happy few to leave for the island , a paradise where they live happily ever after

overexposure not only takes the form of luminescence , but also , that of extreme close - ups when harry and marion lie face to face after a fix , and speak words of love to each other . the split frame and the discrepancy in scale between the two shots within the same frame — one in close - up , the other not — seem to deny the possibility of togetherness even as the dialogue expresses intimacy ( “you are beautiful ; the most beautiful girl in the world ; my dream” , 46’45 ) :

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i enjoyed this movie from start to finish . i ' m a big fan of wwii era movies and this production captures the era beautifully . how refreshing to watch a movie without sex , violence and special effects which is about the only thing the rot coming out of hollywood these days is capable of delivering . so , if you want to see a film with authentic sets and costumes and values of the period , plus a heart warming plot ( albeit nothing very original ) don ' t miss beautiful dreamer . the cast was excellent and the all the characters seemed like real people . honestly , i don ' t see why anyone would give this movie a low rating .

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, daryl surat said the film " is commonly hailed as one of the single best anime films of all time " .

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addiction through the excessive repetition of the drug - taking scene . although the sequence is aesthetically beautiful , it becomes increasingly painful to watch : the more we are exposed to it , the more its beauty dulls from habit , and the greater our anxiety . as jeff stark puts it : “darren aronofsky’s

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16 see camilla bevilacqua’s synthesis of various theories of film as dream ( bevilacqua 2011 , 8 - 33 ) . one can also read raymond bellour on film as a dream under hypnosis and in particular the pages in which he re - reads metz in this light . ( bellour 83 - 87 ) .

when the b - 24 lands at the little airstrip at the end of the film , a modern airport navigation aid can be seen in the background .

and though it’s won best feature in the three film festivals it has played so far , plans for theatrical and dvd release are still up in the air .

gave the film 4 stars and called it " a skilled surrealist oshii mamoru piece with lots of mystery and just enough urusei yatsura wackiness to remain familiar . "

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the credits at the end of the film list the crew members of the b - 24 liberator bomber ( the starduster ) piloted by willis miller in world war ii .

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i think that this is a very refreshing movie . i was not assaulted with gore , foul language , unnatural " acts " , rape scenes or unwarranted violence . maybe the plot was " predictable " , but didn ' t we know what was going to happen to the " titanic " ? the story and the acting were great and i enjoyed this " refreshing " movie . this movie gives us a small window into the the lives of the " greatest generation " that endured world war ii and the aftermath . our nation is forever indebted to this generation of americans . i enjoyed the the " look " of this movie . it was beautifully shot . some movies seem to be able to " pick you up and take you there " . beautiful dreamer did that . i hope that there are more movies of this type in the future .

in effect , they bought and now own the entire movie , paying cash for a film with a budget that brad sublett will only say is “less than $ 1 million . ”

this film is heartwarming and is really good at helping you to feel the pain and joy of the characters . you will feel like you are going through the situations with them .

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“they’ve never been ones to go away from a risk , ” says daughter dottie miller - sublett , who with brad sublett , has helped with the business end of the film venture .

the credits at the end of the film list the crew members of the b - 24 liberator bomber ( the starduster ) piloted by willis miller in world war ii . see more »

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his discussion contrasts dominant modes of the epistemological and ontological , arguing that the former is attributed mainly to mystery , whereas the latter is adopted from science fiction , and he makes a persuasive case for the relationship between mainstream literature and popular fiction . since cyberpunk shook the science fiction world , no other movements of this magnitude have occurred in prose science fiction . individual talents such as margaret atwood ( b . 1939 ) , octavia e . butler ( 1947–2006 ) , and haruki murakami ( b . 1949 ) have attracted attention as “non - genre” writers .

. , overexposure functions as a sign that the extraterrestrial presence brings humanity a form of illumination ; and while , in the eponymous film , e . t . goes home on his own , in

elizondo , 69 , said he had become a mentor of sorts to younger actors - - the sort who would likely be participating in films submitted to independent film festivals , including temecula ' s .

what the miller family did for the film , once they decided to take it over , was make sure that it would be as good as it could get , says director terri farley - teruel .

the major funders of this film were willis and dorothy miller , of orange county ca . willis was a b - 24 liberator pilot who survived 30 missions over germany in a plane nicknamed " starduster . "

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mason proulx gave the film 5 stars , stating that " like all urusei yatsura , this movie is bizarre and silly , but it somehow manages to give its audience food for the mind and the soul . "

" we just talked about other people who came out here once ( for the film festival ) , and then came out again to go to the wineries or here to pechanga . it really showcases temecula , " washington said of the festival . " the city has transitioned … to become a little more sophisticated . it ' s the wineries , the film festival . we ' re not just a bedroom community anymore . "

inspired by the james hilton novel " random harvest " and the subsequent film staring greer garson and ronald coleman , this film explores the power of a young woman ' s determination to find her husband who went missing in world war ii . set in america ' s heartland of the late ' 40s , the film maintains the suspenseful romance of a film like " titanic " , yet has the low key visual texture of films such as driving miss daisy or fried green tomatoes . claire , played by brooke langton , abandons common wisdom that she should give her husband up for dead and move on with her life . instead , she spends all she has to find , then rehabilitate her husband who has no memory of his life prior to the war . it is a story of loyalty and courage that shows that the sexiest part of a woman is the contents of her heart .

’s fantasies : the marvelous arch through which we initially entered the film is exposed for what it was : just a dream , no more . because the film is targeted to a teenage audience , the last pictures nevertheless grant us the wish - fulfillment of a happy end : the heroes reach the magnificent island of the opening credits , in a return to the idea that all images have a real - life reference , beyond the screen .

willis and dorothy had to decide : let the film sink or swim on its own , or take a bigger risk and make sure that this story , so close to their own , got told as best it could .

the major funders of this film were willis and dorothy miller , of orange county ca . willis was a b - 24 liberator pilot who survived 30 missions over germany in a plane nicknamed " starduster . " see more »

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the double - bind the film does not manage to resolve is that , while the systematic use of overexposure rapidly becomes too predictable , the long - delayed discovery of the extra - terrestrials’ silhouettes in hazy backlighting in the last scene of the film is something of a disappointment too : suddenly they seem too defined , too naïvely present , and even françois truffaut’s awed gaze cannot quite create the mimetic desire spielberg undoubtedly expected . in the later extraterrestrial fable

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similarly , distorted wide - angle views of the characters , as if we were watching them through a peephole , recur at various moments of the film . while this makes them seem particularly vulnerable , it also suggests that viewers are

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— as opposed to drugged — landscape . at the end of the film , the same sequence is repeated but this time , the dream ends on marion’s absence , and harry’s fall through space and darkness into the overexposed reality of shattered dreams and the hospital bed where he lies , amputated of an arm gangrened from drug use . what the film depicts between these two versions of the dream ( its birth and its death ) is the spiral of addiction and degradation .

, is into the milky - white — subliminally maternal ? or blank ? — screen ; the film ends on all four main characters curling up in fetal position , some in explicit memories of childhood , all seeking refuge in sleep .

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josie carroll , who flew in from houston for the weekend , said she ' d like to return after experiencing much of the city ' s best : the film festival , the wineries , old town and golf at temecula creek .

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from the paratext is our double . from this angle , the opening credits , which stage a body wheeled along corridors towards a bright light , hooked onto an i . v . drip , and made up in a funeral home , with a close - up of its beautiful glazed gaze , perhaps mirror us as viewers , hooked onto the show , wheeled into the lethal prologue of the narrative , our eyes glazed over as our screen becomes a window , opening upon the flood of light that is death… or another , parallel , life .

19 all of aurélie ledoux’s analysis on contemporary american film as trompe - l’œil , and in particular of vanilla sky ( ledoux 106 - 110 ) is illuminating ; but it does not focus on lighting itself as a sign of artifice and dreaming .

“i guess you write what you know , ” he says , laughing . “there something to be said for having even unrealistic dreams . even if the dreams don’t come true – that to me is what’s beautiful about los angeles . it’s full of these people who have moved there to chase these dreams . a lot of those people are told by people around them that they’re crazy , or that they’re living in la la land . i wanted to make a movie that saluted them a little bit , and that kind of unrealistic state of mind . ”

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“i think raimunda is a relatable character , and maybe that’s where her beauty lies , ” cruz says . “i credit pedro with how it all turned out . he was very specific about how he wanted this person to look and be played . he knew exactly who she was inside and out . what i love about the film and the way pedro filmed it is that it shows you don’t need the typical love story or speeding cars and explosions to make a film work . you just need great characters . ”

( 2001 ) is real : in one he is disfigured , in the other , he is not ; in one he is living with the brunette , in the other with the blonde . the film cross - cuts from one life to the other , each time the hero falls unconscious or asleep , but each time he opens his eyes —“open your eyes” is the wake - up message on his alarm clock — viewers become more confused . scenes in his life repeat themselves , with variations ; at one late point in the film , all of the people in a busy bar except for the one addressing him seem to freeze , as if they were an unreal backdrop , characters on a suddenly arrested film reel . at this point it becomes clear that what we are watching

it also doesn’t mark his first stab at the hard - to - pull - off genre : before whiplash earned him an oscar nomination for best director , chazelle helmed guy and madeline on a park bench , a little - seen micro - budget jazz musical , originally planned as his thesis project for harvard film school ( he briefly left harvard to focus on finishing the film ) . and while whiplash doesn’t feature a single show - tune , an incessant drum beat courses throughout the tale about a young drummer and his abusive coach .

oscar - winning bosnian director danis tanovic ( no man ' s land ) is planning his firstbosnian - shot film . the project is an adaptation of croatianjournalist ivica djikic ' sdebut novel circus columbia . speaking after presenting his secondfeature hell at the sarajevo filmfestival , tanovic explained that

oscar - winning bosnian director danis tanovic ( no man ' s land ) is planning his firstbosnian - set film . the project is an adaptation of croatianjournalist ivica djikic ' sdebut novel circus columbia . speaking after presenting his secondfeature hell at the sarajevo filmfestival , tanovic explained that

like teller’s character in whiplash , the artists gosling and stone portray are big dreamers trying to make it in an industry where constant rejection is the norm . chazelle admits that both films reflect his own experiences as a film - maker working his way up the hollywood ladder .

in its double meaning — or a window that opens onto endless horizons and new beginnings , because it is the ultimate representation of the movie screen , and of film itself . it is , if i may borrow jacques rancière’s terms , a form of visibility that resists becoming an image ( “du visible qui ne fait pas image” , rancière , 15 ) , and the sum of all images , in their invisibility — the alpha and the omega of film , and an infinite promise of more dreams to open our eyes wide / r to .

ironically , though raimunda isn’t a typically glamorous character — cruz wears padding to fill out her figure in the film — critics have raved that the actress has never been lovelier , saying she exudes the lush appeal of a young sophia loren , a compliment cruz doesn’t take lightly .

as a final shot , it exposes the desire in our gaze , which is to see more , to open our eyes , to open them wider to the artifice , but only to be blinded again . given that “open your eyes” was the first cue of the film itself , the loop is complete : the life - as - dream - and - film continuum is only interrupted , but never ends . ending the film on a startling extreme close - up of david’s open gaze comes as a shock — for even as we find ourselves “disclosed” by this eye in its disquieting intimacy , almost expecting to see ourselves reflected in it — and even as we hear the injunction to leave the cinema , and to get a life — we simultaneously feel the desire to discern , on this glazed surface , precisely in the spot made starry by overexposure , what it

3 see aumont 41 - 46 , on the play on “lumen / numen” in film , in particular in the work of ingmar bergman and orson welles . he also quotes e . t as a “luminous manifesto / a manifesto on light” [ “un manifeste lumineux” ] ( aumont , 76 ) .

is only one aspect of the rape of the gaze at work in the film . indeed , lincoln comes to find out that all of the clones are ultimately bred for organ harvesting should their human “original” fall sick ; that the island is an illusion ; and that those whose turn has come to

“we always like to honor someone that people crave to learn more about , ” gaines says . “penelope cruz is one such person . as an actress , she is brilliant . we’re an international film festival , and she really is a great symbol of international filmmaking . we’re just crazy about her . ”

, lincoln discovers the thousands of suspended clones being brainwashed as he was , by a nonstop flow of televisual images that alternate shots of the island , and textual cues ( “obedience” ) to ensure that the clones learn docility . this rape of the clones’ gaze through force - fed film of course calls to mind kubrick’s

the third impact of science fiction in japan occurred from both inside and outside of the country , almost at the same time . takayuki tatsumi ( b . 1955 ) started with his career as a science fiction critic and continued publishing criticism , essays , or reviews on s - f magajin and other media . in 1988 , he issued his first book - length study of science fiction and contemporary america , cyberpunk america . this work was an unconventional study of the cyberpunk movement in the 1980s , and with his unique cutting - edge style and rhetoric , this academic approach to popular materials was unprecedented . his work was hailed in japanese science fiction circles , and tatsumi’s following grew thereafter . his full metal apache : transactions between cyberpunk japan and avant - pop america ( 2006 ) is a comprehensive study of japanese science fiction and postmodern literature that developed under the influence of and the interaction with its american counterparts .

but it’s her work in “volver” that has experts buzzing about a potential oscar nomination . “she adds so much to ‘volver , ' ” gaines says . “penelope is known for her beauty , but in the film we don’t see penelope . we see raimunda , a woman who has led a very hard , tiring life . ”

1 jacques aumont thus concludes his study of light ( ing ) in film : “light is a raw , immediate , minimal aspect of our perception of the world , but film rarely limits itself to merely reproducing it , and instead uses it as an operator of meaning , of emotion , of strangeness , and even of estrangement . ” ( my translation ) [ “la lumière est une donnée brute , immédiate , minimale de notre perception du monde , mais le cinéma se contente rarement de la reproduire comme telle , et préfère toujours s’en servir comme un opérateur – de signification , d’émotion , d’étrangeté voire d’ estrangement . ” ] ( aumont , 69 ) .

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. having awakened to the artifice of this dream - life , because of the aforementioned glitches in the program , and given the choice between waking to the reality of loss , or resuming his life - as - film , the hero finally chooses to opt out of the film . in a last play on exposure and overexposure — from the x - ray of the medical reconstruction of his face , to the mask that he wore to hide his deformed appearance , to the unnatural whiteness and brightness in this final scene of revelation — he chooses to confront his fear of heights and the vertigo of real life by jumping off the roof and out of the dream .

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pechanga indian reservation - - dennis haysbert , star of the cbs drama " the unit , " surprised himself sunday night when he got a tad emotional upon accepting the terry gilmore award of excellence at a black - tie gala concluding the 12th annual temecula valley international film & music festival . he appeared to be wiping away a tear or two .

or , conversely , because they are medusa - like ? — spielberg makes dazzling light a “sign” of the other’s superior , but ambivalent presence . the repeated use of the technique , however , too obviously aims at deferring the encounter of the third kind ( contact ) to the very last scene of the film , in a completely linear narrative of revelation .

this article examines overexposure in contemporary film as a reflexive sign of exposure to extreme states of being . while there are realistic uses of excessive lighting in film , overexposure almost always appears symbolic , and operates as a cinematic code that translates exposure to the magical , supernatural , or unconscious “other . ” because it is so often connected to the aesthetics of shock and revelation , overexposure often plays on the limits of what we can bear to watch . finally , although as a technique , it plays on the hypnotic attractions of excessive light , it also points to the artifice of lighting and acts as a reflexive sign that what we are gazing upon is unreal , in a contemporary enactment of the baroque allegories of life - as - dream .

“i was laughing so hard inside when we did that episode ( of mtv’s ‘punk’d’ ) , ” cruz says from a new york studio where she is doing photo shoots to promote her latest film , sony pictures classics’ “volver , ” set for limited release nov . 3 . “now , every time something strange happens , i think it’s salma trying to get even with me . ”

as an actress , she succeeds brilliantly in the spanish - language “volver , ” her latest project with her longtime artistic collaborator , director pedro almodovar . in the film , cruz plays raimunda , a strong - willed working - class woman juggling a job as an airport janitor with a chaotic home life , which includes an extended family and an inattentive husband whose eventual death changes her life .

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( 2003 ) : a character we knew as ed , embodied on screen by john cusack , is belatedly revealed in the film to be an imaginary self projected by malcolm , a patient with a serious personality disorder , whose actual physique is pruitt taylor vince’s ( short , overweight , bald ) . the dysmorphic mirror - image of malcolm - as - he - really - is forms on a window - pane against a backdrop of violent lightning , to emphasize illumination as trauma for malcolm , and for us too , since we begin to understand , in that flash , that none of what we have seen so far in the film was as it seemed . within this dialectic of the real and unreal in insanity , overexposure is most often associated to other cinematic techniques , such as the hard cut or jump cut which can aptly imitate the disjointed syntax of dreams or delirium , and translate a split sense of reality or self

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this film tells ( using modern day interviews and archival footage and sound tapes ) the story of how in 1967 , while his band the beach boys triumphantly toured abroad , brian wilson was trying to push the boundaries of conventional pop music with a new follow - up to the beach boys ' cutting - edge mega - hit , pet sounds . the new album was to be called " smile " . smile pushed the envelope both musically and lyrically , and was supposed to out - do the beatles ' sgt . pepper record . but brian wasn ' t able to sell the project to his band - mates when they returned . the project was shelved and wilson ' s well - documented decline into depression , drug abuse , recluseness , and obesity had begun . thirty - odd years later , wilson announced that in 2004 , smile would be performed live in its entirety in london . this film tells the story of a damaged but healing artist bringing his greatest work to light .

, and in an endless mirroring of the concrete and the figurative — the screen is our mirror , the gaze is like a camera , and the necessary apparatus to film and to screen a movie is itself made of reflectors , mirrors , lighting , etc . ( metz 1977 , 72 ) — overexposure is the ultimate heightening of this “presence - in - absence , ” and films that use overexposure to show the dead , or life beyond death , play doubly upon ghosting . alan ball’s cult series

of overexposure , and reflexively keeps us in the dark because disclosure would literally kill not only the photosensitive children but the film itself , most romantic ghost stories bathe ghosts in overexposure from their very first appearance on screen . this double symbolization of presence and absence that the combination of overexposed images and fade - to - white allows is the hallmark of films of haunting , but also , of tales of derealization , or dematerialization , such as time travel . these various significations can be combined : darren aronofsky’s

( 2003 ) , which plays on the disappearance of the setting itself into the whiteness of the screen ( as if the screen were a gigantic landscape of clouds or fog from which the characters could emerge and into which they could disappear ) , and which takes the de - realization of the illusion inherent to film as far as it can go . in more popular films , such radical debunking is unthinkable ; but overexposure as a sign of alienation is a constant . an interesting example is michael bay’s

in 2015 , a blip , as snowy flop everest failed to make it a hat - trick , but this year , the choicest launchpad seems back in the good books . la la land won the spot this year , and reception to damien chazelle’s follow - up to whiplash has been nothing short of rapturous . its world premiere drew raves ( the guardian’s peter bradshaw declared it a “ sun - drenched musical masterpiece ” ) . the same occurred at the telluride film festival days later , where it received its north american debut .

“they’re short of timeless in the sense that you can buy them as a 1940s sort of old movie , old hollywood pairing – like a fred astaire and ginger rogers , or a katharine hepburn and spencer tracy , ” says chazelle of his famous twosome . “yet at the same time , they feel , at least to me , completely contemporary . they have a way of grounding everything that they do in a very believable way . once we were able to cast them in the film , it’s like the whole thing sort of woke up . ”

awful is not a strong word in the case of this messy soap opera . while i ' m not divulging any secrets of the movie plot ( there is no plot to mention ) , you won ' t get to see this movie on any wide release or even a small release in the theaters . if they are lucky , a tv sale on lifetime tv might land in the director ' s backyard . this movie is like a damaged plane made of parts that cannot fit and it simply doesn ' t take off . the writer hasn ' t stop for a second to think of his writing , basically writing the movie and perhaps reading a book on how to write movies at the same time . the director is childish to think she can direct , since any good director would change lines , direct actors to react a certain way and frame the shot so that is not in a constant 3 - shot . while the cinematography is beautiful , the story tries very hard . i was actually impressed with the producing because the movie looks very good for a small budget ( under $ 1 mil ) . but then again , who cares about that when the movie is a total waste of your almost 2 hours , hours that will never come back .

14 scorsese’s adaptation of shutter island ( 2010 ) plays on this ambiguity . not only does the film begin in overexposure , with a phantom ship of sorts emerging from a prolonged white screen of fog , but protagonist teddy daniels ( leonardo di caprio ) is quickly shown bathed in intermittent and too - bright bursts of lightning as he suffers from a head - splitting headache during the violent storm which batters the island . overexposure , lightning , and teddy’s particularly horrible nightmares combined indicate that the psychiatric prison is not so much the haunted house we take it to be , than the projected haunted house of teddy’s ( broken ) psyche .

in terms of the magical , the transcendent , the other - worldly ; used “subjectively” , it connotes altered states of consciousness ( dreams , coma , madness ) . at its most extreme , it consists in exposing both the characters and the viewers to light as an actual source of , and metaphorical expression for , searing pain . if such films deliberately make gazing unbearable , sustained overexposure in contemporary film can also function on a more metafilmic level , drawing our attention to the blind spot within our gaze . in a contemporary spin on the baroque allegory of life - as - dream and of life - as - stage , and in a play on the

monica michlin est mcf en études américaines à l’université paris - sorbonne où elle enseigne en littérature et civilisation américaines contemporaines . ses recherches portent surtout sur la littérature africaine - américaine contemporaine ( toni morrison , toni cade bambara , phyllis alesia perry , sapphire , langston hughes ) , le cinéma américain contemporain , et sur les séries télévisées américaines contemporaines entre utopie et dystopie . monica michlin is an associate professor of american studies at paris - sorbonne , where she teaches contemporary us literature and civilization . her research is mainly in african - american literature ( toni morrison , toni cade bambara , phyllis alesia perry , sapphire , langston hughes ) , contemporary american film and contemporary american tv series between utopia and dystopia .

4 “film only gives [ the audiovisual data one perceives ] in effigy , inaccessible from the outset , in a primordial elsewhere ; an infinitely desirable ( = never possessible ) , on another stage , which is that of absence — and which nonetheless represents the absent in all of its detail , thus making it very present [ … ] . ( my translation ) [ “le cinéma ne la donne [ cette donnée audio - visuelle ] qu’en effigie , d’emblée dans l’inaccessible , dans un ailleurs primordial , un infiniment désirable ( = un jamais possessible ) , sur une autre scène qui est celle de l’absence et qui figure pourtant l’absent dans tous ses détails ; le rendant ainsi très présent [ … ] ” ( metz , 86 ) .

i ' ve seen some very harsh reviews of this movie so far . although i have to agree with some of the points made , that the flow of the movie doesn ' t always seem to fit , and that some of the direction and the script could have been much better , i still enjoyed this film . i was very impressed with some of the production in this film , as i know it was low - budget . the scenery and costumes lend to a very lovely , vintage atmosphere . i enjoyed the acting between the principal characters . considering that the script and direction left something to be desired i found it very impressive that the leads were able to produce some of the moments that they did . i was expecting to find this movie ridiculous and uninspiring , and no question , there were some moments where i was watching it thinking " what . . . ? . " surprisingly , i found myself enjoying this movie quite a bit . another reviewer called this movie " soap opera " but i thought that the emotion was extremely restrained , but poignant at the same time , and i think that ' s what i liked about it . this movie is a simple , sweet , heartfelt flick . if you ' re an incurable romantic , you ' ll probably enjoy it . i only wish that the screenwriters and scriptwriters and directors had given this movie a little more thought , more scenes , more well written scenes , and more time to play out , because the story , settings and characters were lovely .


l'enfant ( english : the child ) is a 2005 belgian film directed by jean-pierre and luc dardenne , starring jérémie renier and déborah françois .

the film was released under its french title in the us , and as the child in the uk .

it won the palme d'or at the 2005 cannes film festival .

l'enfant also received positive reviews from critics , and went on the win other honours .

in 2017 , the film was named the fourteenth " best film of the 21st century so far " by the new york times .

l ' enfant ( film )

l ' enfant ( film ) <EOT> l ' enfant ( the child ) opens today in new york and los angeles .

for other uses , see l ' enfant prodigue ( disambiguation ) and the prodigal son ( disambiguation ) .

although " l ' enfant " won the coveted palme d ' or at the 2005 cannes film festival , it is a grossly disappointing movie .

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trailer of ' l ' enfant ' ( ' the child ' ) by jean - pierre and luc dardenne , 2005 . english subtitles . urltoken

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magnifique . . . belgian brothers luc , left , and jean - pierre dardenne pose with the palme d ' or trophy they won for their film l ' enfant ( the child ) , at the 58th international cannes film festival . photo : ap

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" l ' enfant " ( " the child " ) is rated r ( under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian ) . the film has some rough language , but nothing that anyone over 10 hasn ' t heard before .

l ' enfant shows a world that remains under the radar for most people , yet proves that growing up - however long it takes - is anything but child ' s play .

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no one is likely to leave l ' enfant unaffected by the dardennes incisive exploration of the consequences of a world where some of its citizens have found a way to rationalize , and even ignore , what was if not unimaginable , at least unforgivable .

made in 1913 this film is so advanced in film technique , camera techniques and placement , character development and length ( over two hours ! ) that it leaves my silent film director hero , d . w . griffith in the dust .

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the film is ironically gripped by the sort of ideological “vagueness” that karl marx dismisses throughout .

the brothers discuss the hot - button issues at the film’s center and their unique filmmaking approach .

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the greatness of the dardennes is that they allow us to realize that these are questions and leave us free to try to answer them . what happens at the end of the film perhaps suggests grief and a desire to repent . i hope it does . but " l ' enfant " is not so simple as to believe that for bruno there can be a happy ending . here is a film where god does not intervene and the directors do not mistake themselves for god . it makes the solutions at the ends of other pictures seem like child ' s play .

but let me just bluntly tell you what happens in the film , while observing that " l ' enfant , " more than almost any film i can think of , is not about plot development but about putting one foot in front of the other . we meet sonia and bruno . she has just borne his child . the baby in her arms , she finds bruno begging from cars at a traffic light while serving as a lookout for a burglary in progress . she shows him their child . he is as interested as if she had shown him her new phone card .

anonymous city , handheld camera , actors who scarcely seem to be acting : we may think we know where we are , more or less . this is surely the new wave by way of neo - realism , early truffaut chasing late rossellini . didn’t we get over this ? how could a film in this vein , namely l’enfant , written and directed by luc and jean - pierre dardenne , win the palme d’or at cannes last year ? to say nothing of the same prize won by their film rosetta , a venture in just the same vein , in 1999 . ‘a gritty urban tale of a young couple living on the breadline in france’ , the bbc says of l’enfant . belgium , as it happens , and more like the criminal fringe than the breadline . but gritty and urban are going to be part of almost anyone’s first impressions . grim , too . are we so nostalgic for the hard realities we imagine the movies have lost ?

the film also earned the best screenplay honour for the story written by guillermo arriaga , who penned 21 grams .

another terrific , ultra - realistic family drama fom the talented dardenne brothers , winner of cannes film fest top prize .

amrit nahata ' s kissaa kursee kaa , the film which will never be released = " kissā kursī kā " .

we talk about the " point of view " of a film . " l ' enfant " sees with the eye of god . the film has granted free will to its central character , bruno , and now it watches , intense but detached , to see how he will use it . bruno is so amoral , he doesn ' t register the meaning of his actions . at first , his behavior is evil . he attempts repairs . whether he is redeemed is a good question . at the end , he is weeping , but he cannot weep forever , and he has a limited idea of how to survive and make a living .

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observe particularly the camera strategy in the last half of the film . often when a hand - held camera follows a character , it feels subjective ; we are invited to identify , as if the camera is a point of view we share with the character . in the passages after sonia faints in " l ' enfant , " the camera focuses so intensely on bruno that everything else seems peripheral vision . but it doesn ' t " identify " with him , and it doesn ' t represent his point of view . it watches to see what he will do .

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its win served the dardennes ' their second cannes triumph , after they picked up the palme d ' or in 1999 for their film rosetta .

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a little girl gets kidnapped . perret ' s most famous film , and widely considered his masterpiece . not bad , but dragged at times for me .

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the ghastly straightforwardness of the proposition itself makes a thrilling start , but the complications that follow result in a film which rivals deliverance in terms of mounting tension .

the dardennes achieve their effects through an intense visual focus . they follow their characters as if their camera can look nowhere else . in " l ' enfant , " their gaze is upon bruno . they deliberately do not establish the newborn child as a character . unlike the equally powerful " tsotsi , " their film doesn ' t show bruno caring for the child . the child is simply something he carries , like loot or a video game . the movie also avoids the opportunity to develop sonia , except as her behavior responds to bruno ' s . when she lets out a cry of grief and faints , this is not so much what she does as what bruno sees her do .

there is no score in this film , not even during the credits . the only music heard is a recording of the blue danube playing on a car stereo .

for the past decade , the belgian brothers jean - pierre and luc dardenne have been building one of the most passionately engaged bodies of work in contemporary cinema . characterized by an insistently moving camera , their films move fast even when the brothers do not . since the release of their breakthrough film " la promesse " in 1996 , they have made just three other fiction titles : " rosetta , " " the son " and now " l ' enfant " ( " the child " ) , stories about men and women engaged in a struggle - - for money , shelter , a break in the fence , a way into the world - - that is inscribed on the very surface of their restlessly beautiful images .

ralph fiennes and penelope cruz , the stars of the closing film chromophobia , screened out of competition after the awards ceremony , were also present , as was french actor lambert wilson .

, or l ' enfant , is an example of how cinema has the power to convince , to move and to compel with the fewest possible material resources . it is as gripping as any thriller , with the abrasive force of social - realist drama , and yet it is also unapologetically concerned with redemption - a theme that is just a style accessory in many movies , but is here absolutely authentic . it is a spiritual and even religious story , though religion of any sort is quite absent . in some scenes , it even had this unbeliever fearing for the lead character ' s immortal soul .

, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics , the film received an average score of 81 , based on 19 reviews , indicating " universal acclaim " .

the dardenne brothers are religious men , but their detached style is so munificent their films defy easy categorization ; these works of art can just as easily be read as christian allegories or visions of socialist - humanist daring . indeed , every remarkable composition and movement in l’enfant exudes compassion and remorse , evoking a profound sense of transcendental , existential , spiritual , or emotional unease ( take your pick , or take them all , because the brothers’ vision is nothing if not absolute ) , and its incredible , gut - punching finale—which follows what may be the most exciting and revelatory chase sequence the movies have seen in many moons—can be looked at as a male pieta or , more simply ( but just as powerfully ) , an eruptive demonstration of a child finally becoming an adult . either way , the film is nothing short of a miracle .

the child , a belgian drama about a petty thief who sells his baby son , won the cannes film festival ' s prestigious palme d ' or on saturday at a red - carpet ceremony .

l’enfant opens on a shot of a young woman ( déborah françois ) with a baby coming up some stairs . she takes out a key and opens the door of what turns out to be her flat . two surprised and annoyed people , a man and a woman , are seen through the door . they explain they have rented the place for the weekend from bruno ( jérémie renier ) and slam the door in the young woman’s face . she bangs on the door . she knows what’s happened because she knows bruno , but she needs the charger for her mobile phone . the couple fling the charger out , and the young woman takes off .

why make a film about bruno ? the same might be asked about raskolnikov . like robert bresson , whose " pickpocket " informs " l ' enfant " and is itself a loose reworking of " crime and punishment , " the dardennes are not interested in passing judgment on a grievously flawed character ; that ' s why god and hollywood were invented . since there is no moral ambiguity in the act of selling another human being , there would be no point in such judgment , other than to indulge in some self - satisfied finger - wagging . rather , what interests the dardennes - - what invests their work with such terrific urgency - - is not only how bruno became the kind of man who would sell a child as casually as a slab of beef , but also whether a man like this , having committed such a repellent offense , can find redemption .

" l ' enfant , " which won the golden palm at cannes 2005 , is the new film by the dardenne brothers , jean - pierre and luc , whose " the son " ( 2002 ) made such an impact ; audiences were moved in a deep , rare way . the dardennes do not make morality tales . their character bruno is not aware that what he does is good or bad . he is unformed . there is a scene where he and sonia tussle playfully in a car and then romp outside in a park like a couple of kids . does he love her ? love is outside his emotional range . he takes money , spends it , doesn ' t even cultivate the persona of a hustler . he is that most terrifying kind of human being , the one who doesn ' t feel ordinary emotions or even understand that other people do .

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with their breakout hit la promesse , jean - pierre and luc dardenne cultivated a singularly exquisite ethical and emphatic view of the world adopted and extended by each and every one of their successive masterpieces : rossetta , the son , and now l’enfant . the verité aesthetic of these films is instantly recognizable and rooted in the brothers’ shared background in documentary filmmaking ; the wobbly camera , back - of - the - head shots , oblique framing , and lack of mood music is its own artifice , but the cumulative emotional and spiritual affect of these films never feels premeditated . so innate is this style that the films appear to materialize out of thin air , and with each new project , the filmmakers appear to be daring us to find a single false note in their startling simulations of real life .

it also surprised many critics who had been tipping hidden , a subtle french film about western bias against arabs , as the leading movie in the race . that picture , by austrian director michael haneke , picked up a relatively minor stage direction award .

like the dardennes ' other recent films , " l ' enfant " takes place in an industrial town far from the tourist cathedrals and squares . the story opens with sonia ( déborah françois ) , a pretty young blonde with a newborn son , jimmy , in tow . dressed in a mini and boots , clutching the infant awkwardly in her arms like an unexpected gift , sonia is anxiously searching for the man we soon learn is her boyfriend , bruno ( jérémie renier , the young hero of " la promesse " ) . when she finds him , he greets her warmly but barely registers the mewling bundle in her arms . for this penny - ante thief , who lives by his wits and willingly plays fagin to two very young accomplices , a baby , even one he sired , has no meaning because it serves no purpose .

" in their film , the dardenne brothers make the point that terror takes many forms , including poverty , and you don ' t have to travel to the middle east to pay witness to inhumanity or grace , " new york times reviewer manohla dargis said .

l’enfant ’s swirling sense of moral chaos , sustained horror , and courage has not been seen since the son , which was also open to the possibility of good coming out of a world that can be relentless in its callousness . like the dardennes’ camera , bruno seems propelled by an innate mechanism beyond his control ; he is keen only on self - preservation , oblivious to his role as a father . the dardennes help us to understand bruno’s helplessness , but they never abuse or toy with our sympathies . they may see bruno’s actions as the residual damage of a heartless social existence ( a dog - eat - dog global market ) , but this bitter truth isn’t revealed to the audience with a guttersnipe’s sense of class , but with uncanny ease , and with the compassionate belief that the world , in spite of its merciless cruelty , is still possible of affecting good .

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tommy lee jones , who starred in hollywood blockbusters the fugitive and men in black , picked up the best acting award for his film directing debut , the three burials of melquiades estrada , a tough - as - nails tale about death and redemption in the border area between texas and mexico .

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. the award ' s jury made this statement about the film : " a well crafted narrative that explores the highs and lows of a complicated familial relationship with authentic performances , supported by grand cinematography , pulls you into the unfamiliar world of a childhood thief whose only constant is the love shared between him and his sister . "

another way that first kid stands head and shoulders above truffaut’s film is in the use of montage . truffaut wasted a great deal of time trying to establish character , trying to establish a central theme and set of questions at the heart of the film . had he been a skilled filmmaker in the mold of david m . evans , he would’ve been much more efficient and cut all of that stuff out by simply showing it as part of a montage . we , the viewers , didn’t need to be bogged down by seeing sinbad and the president’s son becoming friends over several scenes . no , it was much more effective to cram it into 90 seconds of clips .

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film . records by danny kaye of orig cast . " anatole of paris " ( 1942 : alb - 70 , alb - 107 , alb - 518 , alb - 1370 , alb - 1567 , alb - 1613 , alb - 1825 , alb - 1831 , alb - 1974 , alb - 2186 ) ( 1952 : alb - 6 , alb - 515 ) " the little fiddle " ( 1949 : alb - 55 ) ( production and . . .

this film is ostensibly about a young girl being kidnapped and eventually recovered by her father , who the authorities mistakenly believe had died at war . but of course it is really about how greedy and poorly humans can treat each other . since there are few inter - title cards used the viewer must pay close attention to the screen , at times the pace of the plot moves along an amazing pace and can be tough to follow . but it is worth it .

a little later he takes the baby for a walk in the fancy new pram he has bought with his recently acquired money . he does a little begging just for fun , and then he has an idea . we know he has an idea , because he makes a phone call . in all of these movies , people act as soon as they think , and this is why the movies become so fast and ironic . the characters in l’enfant , as in la promesse and rosetta , are always busy , never at a loss . they have always already decided what to do , and are on their way to do it . that’s what we see , that’s what the films consist of : people on their way somewhere , not reflecting , not agonising , just getting on with it , whatever it is . there is just enough dialogue to clarify what’s happening , but the dialogue is an explanation , not part of a decision or a thought process . when the boy in la promesse makes his promise to look after an african immigrant and her child , we scarcely hear his words and the words scarcely matter . later , when he helps the woman to escape from his father , who’s running an illegal immigration scam , he says he can go against his father for her sake , but he can’t inform on him : ‘je ne suis pas d’accord avec mon père , mais je ne suis pas un mouchard . ’ he’s not looking for grace but he has found , and is acting on , a fragile but real sense of honour .

in each film , deeper philosophical soul - searching happens . is it acceptable to confine the child in wild child if freedom is all that he’s known ? can such a child learn the nuances of moral order , justice , right and wrong ? and is it ok to put fake dog poop on the ground at a presidential inauguration if it gets some laughs , as sinbad once did in first kid ? robert guillaume would seem to think not , but i would disagree with the former star of benson .

another point in favor of first kid is in character development , which is driven home by the sharp , cutting wit , such as when taylor calls the president’s kid “the first wuss” ( this tells us that the kid is not held in high esteem by his peers , and that the film was made when ‘wuss’ was still a socially acceptable word ) ; or when sinbad keeps wearing wacky ties , which establishes for us that sinbad’s character shuns authority and also that he is wacky . truffaut failed in this regard .

it seems to me essential that we don’t know why bruno is crying , that we can’t moralise this ending into some comfortable stuff about remorse and learning a lesson and the value of human life . perhaps he’s crying because he’s sorry for himself . perhaps he’s just bewildered by the evaporation of his old ingenuity , by all the risk and fun running out when he thought they would go on for ever . sonia may be crying because bruno is , but she has plenty of other reasons too ; and the only good explanation for any of these tears is the whole film we have just seen .

the heartstopping vulnerability of this tiny baby is almost unendurable throughout the film . in a world where the safety of children now exceeds almost every other ethical consideration , it is stomach - turningly scary to see sonia riding on the back of a motor - scooter clutching little jimmy to her chest . extended , wordless scenes of people riding on bikes and scooters are a cliched mainstay of a certain type of european arthouse cinema , yet this sensationally upsetting image gives it new life . it sums up the danger and the rootlessness of sonia ' s existence ; it conveys her inability to imagine the future , yet also her poignant faith that things will be all right .

the ambiguity and irony of the film ' s title run further than this . bruno has a kind of parental role that he does take seriously ; he is a fagin figure to a gaggle of schoolkids who snatch purses and pick pockets , and he sells the goods to a fence he meets in a bar . and it is this fence , a well - dressed woman , who asks him if he is happy to be a father and if he knows about the big money to be made in the adoption black market . so bruno one day casually volunteers to take beloved little jimmy off sonia ' s hands for an innocuous " walk " - to meet his contact .

wonderfully subdued tale of a father ' s ( eventual ) love . in many ways a latter day oliver twist , focusing more on the pickpocketing aspect . it shows how far people will go for money and how it can also blind their common sense . bruno may be a bit naive in his actions but unfortunately we never see the real bruno until the last few frames . he only does the right thing when pushed into it due to very harsh circumstances . it ' s excellently shot , capturing the realistic harsh nature the film sets out to achieve . slow in some places and not so well developed in others it is for the most part a truly affecting tale that doesn ' t sentimental .

few other questions - - how we live and whether our lives have meaning - - are as important , which is why it ' s unsettling that few filmmakers bother to raise them . the dardennes started out making documentaries about strikes and factories , and that may help explain why they are so comfortable asking such basic questions . some of their critics are rather less comfortable with their subject matter , and it ' s instructive that the brothers ' work is often lumped under the rubric of the social - issue film , probably because their characters are working class or poor . implicit in this thinking is that poverty is strictly a social problem , an abstraction you read about in the papers or gingerly step over on the sidewalk , rather than a collective falling down on the job of being human .

i just didn ' t feel enough for the main character to be that invested in his plight , especially considering he brought all of his drama on himself through his own actions . maybe that ' s the point of it , but if i want to watch an idiot make stupid decisions that effect other people ' s lives negatively , i ' ll keep watching reality television . and here ' s the other thing about italian neo - realism vs . the french style of the same thing ( yeah , i ' m getting all film schooly on your asses ) : at least the italians new how to frame . i get it , it ' s part of the slice of life thing , but try the camera on the tripod once and see what it looks like . paris is too beautiful of a city to be seen of out focus .

the mobile phone is important as an image and an instrument . it allows the people in this film to make their dodgy deals and connections , and it also links them to their harebrained wishes , allows them to realise their first ideas without time for second thoughts . this is just what happens to bruno , master , as he imagines , of adventure and survival in the grubby modern city . the place we are in is the belgian steel town of seraing , near liège , recurring scene of the dardenne brothers’ movies . when people are not on the phone , it seems , they are on a bus , or whizzing around town on a moped . the high whine of the moped becomes something like the theme music of all these movies . heavy traffic , lorries and cars pounding across the screen , is another returning image . you begin to feel that just getting across the street is a deep skill , probably available only to people in their teens and early twenties .

these first impressions are not all wrong , and the dardenne brothers , belgian filmmakers who first received international notice with their devastating la promesse ( 1996 ) , make no secret of their cinematic debts . they usually throw bresson into the mix , and critics seem to feel some mention of the brothers’ background in documentary film is obligatory . but they also have a background in theatre , which may help to explain why the first impressions don’t tell the whole story , and why one’s memories of the films make all quick and loose descriptions seem slightly off . the films turn out not to be grim , for example . their touch is too light for that , and the ironies too carefully managed . the characters don’t brood over their misery – they are too busy inventing the wrong solutions . the programme notes for a recent austrian season of the dardennes’ films say they are ‘not just precise portrayals of society , they are also fables about the struggle for grace . ’ this is a bit too theological but it’s a move in the right direction .

here follows the second long walking scene in the movie – the earlier one was bruno pushing the pram , first with and then without the baby , up and down the streets of seraing , past the shops , across a bridge , through the traffic . now bruno pushes his friend’s moped through a similar scene . the thing is heavy , and i seem to have missed the reason why he is not riding it . as ever , he has made up his mind and knows what he is doing . but we shan’t know what it is until he does it . in fact , bruno , like the boy in la promesse , has found a sense of honour he didn’t know he had , and is on his way to the police station , because he can’t let his juvenile friend take the rap alone . the movie ends with bruno in prison , and sonia visiting him . he asks how the baby is and sonia says he’s fine . they don’t have much to say to each other , and bruno starts to cry . sonia cries too , and the film is over .

bruno takes a while to get there . his idea , and the subject of his phone call , is obviously to sell the baby ; and he does . the great scene in the movie occurs when he tells sonia about it . we expect some wily , picaresque explanation , another example of bruno’s talent for improvisation , but he just tells sonia the truth . partly , we imagine , because he likes her and doesn’t want to lie to her , and partly because he doesn’t think there’s a problem . we can have another one , he says : ‘on en fera un autre . ’ sonia passes out and he takes her to the hospital . the plot of the film becomes quite tricky at this point , and totally undoes any idea of simple documentary sequence or observation . sonia tells the hospital staff what bruno has done ; he manages to get the baby back , but is still in trouble with the police . he talks his way out of that , but now owes the baby - dealing crooks for their ‘additional expenses’ . sonia won’t talk to him , and throws him out of the flat . he gets one of his juvenile friends to snatch a purse for him , and both of them are pursued by respectable belgians eager to make a citizen’s arrest . bruno escapes , but they catch his friend .

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the dardennes continue to excel at presenting works of rigorous naturalism , with detached observations of authentic characters that nevertheless resonate with complex moral issues .

unfolding in real time on the scruffy working - class streets of industrial belgium , this harrowingly intense odyssey charts bruno ' s desperate search for redemption .

what is astonishing , and most admirable , is the way the filmmakers manage to create sympathy for this pathetic loser .

the dardennes have managed to concoct an engaging and often suspenseful drama without ever calling upon fancy camerawork , sensational performances , or even so much as a musical score .

touching , but it really makes no sense that a guy so crappy as to sell his baby would be such a good person in the end . i guess it says something about becoming an adult , but still . . . it ' s about as abrupt a change as anakin skywalker turning to the dark side .

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young , unmarried couple sonia and bruno have just had a son , who sonia names jimmy . bruno , who did not visit her while she was in the hospital , scoffs at the notion of what he considers traditional employment , instead eking out a living primarily on petty crimes committed with his fourteen year old associate , steve . he even sublets sonia ' s small apartment while she is in the hospital , he sleeping either in the homeless shelter or squatting in what he calls his " shack " down by the river . on the day after sonia gets out of the hospital , she allows bruno to take jimmy for a walk while she stands in line for her benefits . on that walk , bruno makes the unilateral decision to sell jimmy to a black market adoption agency . upon finding out what bruno has done , sonia has a breakdown and falls unconscious . fearing that sonia will turn him over to the police when she regains consciousness , bruno tries to get jimmy back while he leaves sonia in the hospital in her unconscious state . but bruno . . .

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young , unmarried couple sonia and bruno have just had a son , who sonia names jimmy . bruno , who did not visit her while she was in the hospital , scoffs at the notion of what he considers traditional employment , instead eking out a living primarily on petty crimes committed with his fourteen year old associate , steve . he even sublets sonia ' s small apartment while she is in the hospital , he sleeping either in the homeless shelter or squatting in what he calls his " shack " down by the river . on the day after sonia gets out of the hospital , she allows bruno to take jimmy for a walk while she stands in line for her benefits . on that walk , bruno makes the unilateral decision to sell jimmy to a black market adoption agency . upon finding out what bruno has done , sonia has a breakdown and falls unconscious . fearing that sonia will turn him over to the police when she regains consciousness , bruno tries to get jimmy back while he leaves sonia in the hospital in her unconscious state . but bruno will soon learn that regaining sonia ' s trust will not be as simple as getting jimmy back . and he will also learn that getting jimmy back is not as easy as giving back the money .

bruno and sonia are boy friend and girl friend , playful , immature . she ' s still in her teens ; they chase each other , share cigarettes , spray sodas and wrestle . the thing is , they also have a new baby . just out of hospital , sonia seeks out bruno to bring him his son . bruno ' s indifferent . in the grimy belgian city of seraing , he ' s a petty thief with no interest in work , no plan , spending money as fast as he can fence cameras and jewelry . he sells the baby . sonia ' s reaction and bruno ' s surprise at her response inform his subsequent actions . the camera follows and observes him : has he a nascent conscience or any chance at redemption ? can he help himself ?

when the single mother sonia returns home with her newborn son , she finds that the baby ' s father bruno had rented her apartment for a couple . she seeks out bruno , who is a small time young thief that has a gang with two other teenagers , on the streets and they go to a shelter to stay during the cold night . on the next morning , they register the child with the name of jimmy . when bruno receives a proposal from his dealer for selling jimmy for adoption for five thousand euros , he steals the baby and sells him to his contact . however , when sonia discovers what bruno did , she faints , goes to the hospital and reports the transaction to the police . bruno calls off the transaction and retrieves jimmy , but has to pay to the dealers another five thousand euros , in the beginning of his descent to hell and final redemption .

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sonia just gave birth to jimmy , fathered by her boyfriend bruno , who feels jobs are for chumps and prefers to beg , borrow and steal his way to his next meal or wardrobe change . after one of his pawn brokers tells him how much people would pay for a baby , he figures it ' d be a brilliant idea to sell their newborn son , and does ( call it $ 5 , 000 ; they never quite said ) . sonia comes looking for the boy , bruno tells her what he did , she passes out and he takes her to hospital , where she reports him . he rushes to buy back the baby , he does , but the guys inform him they lost twice as much in the deal , and he has to pay them back the other $ 5 , 000 . bummer . he gives the baby back to sonia , the cops have a word with him , and she ' s not speaking to him . he and his 14 - year - old partner in crime steve steal a woman ' s purse , but she screams and some men give chase ; after an exhaustive chase , the cops find and arrest steve . bruno has a moment of conscience , and turns himself in to free steve . sonia visits him in jail , bruno cries , and that ' s that .

bruno and sonia share an addiction to mobile phones , and this too is a part of their transient , uncommitted , provisional attitude to everything . the cellphone is a vital possession , the only possession that appears to mean anything , and a vital facilitator of their unmoored existence . one of the very first things sonia does is demand the return of her mobile phone charger from the people to whom bruno has illegally sub - let her welfare apartment . mobile phones are vitally important to making discreet contacts in the world of receiving stolen goods , and ultimately in the cloak - and - dagger world of black - market adoption . bruno has to use his cellphone to arrange a drop - off for his priceless merchandise without seeing his buyers ' faces ; the phone is a symbol of moral void , and makes possible an extraordinary scene in which the baby is left alone in a shabby room , and is then , through a horrible anti - miracle , revealed to have been transformed into a shameful wodge of euros . it reminded me , in reverse , of a novel i hadn ' t picked up in years : george eliot ' s silas marner , in which the miser ' s savings are stolen and replaced with a baby .

the child has what many movies of all genres lack : a satisfying and ingenious ending . bruno ' s desperate situation with jimmy leads him into a frantic criminal endeavour with one of his artful dodgers . the final scenes with the police and the authorities are subtly but profoundly moving : they show how it is possible for bruno , however incorrigible he appears , to change . even though his motives for doing this are ambiguous , the choice he makes and the price he has to pay are both very real . the child has nothing to do with miserablism , and everything to do with fine acting and transcendentally powerful , compassionate drama .

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once reunited , sonia and bruno retreat to their private bubble , laughing and teasing like the squawking , rambunctious , sexed - up teenagers they more or less are . everything else , including the inconvenience of sleeping in a homeless shelter ( bruno subleased sonia ' s apartment while she was having the baby ) and the inconvenience of the preternaturally quiet infant in their distracted care , feels like an afterthought . and then , the next day , while sonia ' s attention is directed elsewhere , bruno sells jimmy on the black market . with breathtaking deliberation , he places a few phone calls and after a long bus ride and a climb up some stairs to a vacant apartment , he exchanges his son for an envelope of cash . and then he saunters back to sonia with the empty stroller .

the dardennes know how to build a scene for maximum tension : you yearn to find out who bought jimmy , and whether his fate lies with a childless couple or an organ mill . but because they make moral thrillers , what matters isn ' t only actions and events but their emotional , spiritual and psychological costs . the tragedy of " rosetta , " for instance , isn ' t that the title character is poor , but how poverty has made her an exile , separating her from the rest of the world . bruno ' s outsider status initially seems more of a choice than rosetta ' s . " only suckers work , " he tells sonia , though his actual language skews more aggressively potent . with his sporty leather jacket and cigarette , hooded eyes and scheming , he might almost be mistaken for someone who ' s the master of his life .

for bruno , jimmy has no meaning beyond what he brings on the market . but then , for most of the world , bruno has even less value . sonia loves him , though her passion seems more capricious and flighty than profound , and the two younger boys he uses for his larcenous schemes rely on him only for jobs , not meaningful companionship . but the support that these three provide is as flimsy a shelter for bruno as the cardboard box he sleeps in one night not long after selling his son . and it ' s only after he racks up a debt to some local gangsters , who first beat him to the ground and then carefully tabulate his value down to the last cent , that bruno becomes truly valuable to another human being .

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