Enjoy the most extensive New York retrospective of the Dardennes’ work to date, beginning with their documentary films and including their seldom shown early features Falsch and Je pense à vous. Luc and Jean-Pierre will join us Friday, May 29, for an on-stage discussion of movies, their moviemaking practice, and cinema in general.
Already well-established among today’s most influential working filmmakers, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne are also role models. Their approaches to filmmaking and storytelling are as responsible as they are creative, and their originality goes hand-in-hand with their allegiance to reality—economic, social, psychological, and spiritual. Few film artists have ever been as true to the inner and outer lives of their characters: Once you’ve seen Jéremie Rénier’s Igor in La Promesse or his Bruno in L’Enfant, Olivier Gourmet’s grief-stricken father in The Son, or Emilie Duquenne’s indomitably iron-willed Rosetta, you’ll know these troubled souls down to the most intimate gestures. The sadly impoverished worlds they inhabit will leave an indelible mark.
This series was programmed by Kent Jones. Special thanks to James Quandt; Jared Rapfogel of Anthology Film Archives; Lucius Barre; Anne Lenoir of Wallonie-Bruxelles International; Haden Guest; and Alexander Horwath and Regina Schlagnitweit.
In the Frieda and Roy Furman Gallery Christine Plenus—Dardenne Set Photographer
May 27 – June 11
“The photographs of Christine Plenus comprise a rare, original, and very personal exposition that overturns in no small way the rules of the game and a good measure of conventional wisdom about the world of art photography.”— Jean Janssis
The Frieda and Roy Furman Gallery is adjacent to the Walter Reade Theater and open daily 1:30 to 6:00 p.m.
