Birthday

1954-03-10

Place of Birth

Awirs, Wallonia, Belgium

Biography

Luc Dardenne (born 10 March 1954) is a Belgian filmmaker who, together with his elder brother (Jean-Pierre Dardenne), works in a duo. They write, produce, and direct their films always together. The Dardennes began making narrative and documentary films in the late 1970s. They came to international attention in the mid-1990s with La Promesse (The Promise). They won their first major international film prize when Rosetta won the Palme d'Or at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival. Their work tends to reflect left-wing themes and points-of-view. In 2002, Olivier Gourmet won Best Actor at Cannes for the Dardennes' Le Fils (The Son). In 2005, they won the Palme d'Or a second time for their film L’Enfant (The Child), putting them in an elite club, at the time, of only seven. Their film, Le Silence de Lorna (Lorna's Silence), won Best Screenplay at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival and was released in Europe in the fall. Their film The Kid with a Bike won the Grand Prix at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, received one Golden Globe nomination and eight Magritte Award nominations. Jean-Pierre was the jury president for the Cinéfoundation and Short Films sections of the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. In 2015, their film Deux jours, une nuit (Two Days, One Night) received nine Magritte Award nominations (winning three) and one Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for Marion Cotillard. Their 2019 feature Young Ahmed won them the Best Director Award at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. In January 2021, they put out a casting call for their next film, scheduled to shoot in summer 2021, tentatively titled Tori et Lokita (Tori and Lokita). ... Source: Article "Dardenne brothers" from Wikipedia in english, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.