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| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 2005 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Sony Pictures |
| MPAA RATING: | R (Restricted) |
| FEATURES: | AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Feature Film-drama, Foreign, Foreign Film [Dub Or Subtitle], International, Movie |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 043396150966 |
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Customer Reviews of L' enfant
Arrested development . . . I liked this film, though as other reviewers point out here, it is hard to watch - and even not that hard to dislike. The young central character, Bruno - the real "child" of the title - is a study in the kind of street-smart survival skills that rely on an absence of emotion or conscience, which makes him interesting to watch, but entirely unsympathetic. The filmmakers want us to care about him and see him perhaps as a victim of social circumstances, but these are fairly undefined in the film, except for an enabling mother who appears briefly to provide him with an alibi for the police. Actually, he could come from anywhere in the social spectrum, as likely to be the product of wealth and privilege. Maybe his only saving grace is that his crimes are nonviolent, though he lays waste to anything of potential value in his life. <
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>The bleakness of the moral vacuum at the center of the film is reflected in the chilly, gray urban setting, where many scenes are played out against the constant, noisy flow of traffic on the streets. And there are moments of emotional tension in the film that drive it forward and compell our attention. Not a film for everyone but rewarding as an intimate portrayal of adolescent lives reaching a deadend.
Does it deserve an award at Cannes just because it's French?
Absolutely not! I am a BIG fan of international films, everywhere from Cannes, to Bollywood. This film absolutely does not deserve any of the good publicity it recieved. I've had tooth extractions done that I would rather have been to rather than watch this again. It is slow, immature, and uncaring. The concept had so much potential, and this story could have been so much more. But something got lost in translation, that something is a good storyline.
"We'll have another."
When the film "L'enfant" begins, teenage mother Sonia (Deborah Francois) returns to her squalid little flat with her new baby, Jimmy. In her absence, however, the baby's father, petty criminal Bruno (Jeremie Renier), has 'sublet' the flat for a few days. This doesn't particularly bother Sonia, and she nonchalantly sets off to find Bruno who is homeless and lives in a makeshift hut by the side of a river. Bruno sponges off of Sonia's benefit money, and also hustles small-time narcotics deals. He's also organized local children into a gang. He takes a percentage of the proceeds of their crimes--hocking the loot in second-hand shops.
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>It's chilling to see these two young parents as they careen towards disaster. When Bruno makes a score, the cash is rapidly frittered away. Obviously neither parent gives much thought to the future--even when poor little Jimmy arrives. Bruno soon comes up with the brilliant idea of selling Jimmy on the black market. It seems to be a fairly cut-and-dried situation for him, and he's used to selling anything of worth that comes his way.
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>Watching "L'enfant" is a painful experience, and several scenes cause the viewer to wince at the profoundly depressing future that awaits Jimmy. Bruno and Sonia's hapless parenting screams disaster, and the film's emotional blankness reflects Bruno's moral landscape--there's simply nothing there--it's all impulse, desire, and short term-gain. With intense camera focus, the film creates an intimate atmosphere surrounding Bruno and Sonia. In one scene for example, there's a sensation that the viewer is actually traveling on the bus with the couple. And that very intimacy also highlights the vast moral void that constitutes Bruno's character. Even when Bruno attempts to repair the damage of his actions, his motives remain unclear and open to interpretation. This is not a film that provides a moral solution, and indeed its ending implies that a bleak future lies ahead. Directed by Belgium brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, the film is in French with English subtitles--displacedhuman