Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne

Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne

Cannes

CANNES 2019: DOLAN, DESPLECHIN, DARDENNE

By Mónica Delgado

Again, a new film by Xavier Dolan confirms the unexplainable side of Cannes. Shot in 35mm, Mathias et Maxime is an example of a film without a course, despite the usual motifs of the Dolan trademark, which continue to give him the fame of enfant terrible (even given his current age): hysteria in the family unit, women in constant ebullition, or romantic stories of homosexuality. A sweetened, insufferable gay love story.

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Cannes

CANNES 2014: TWO DAYS AND ONE NIGHT BY JEAN-PIERRE & LUC DARDENNE

By Mónica Delgado

Unlike other Dardenne brothers’ films, Marion Cotillard’s charácter becomes the essential piece, the engine, the soul, the life of Two Days, One Night. If in their previous films all the characters articulate themselves in a sort of social micro cosmos, here the variation is different.

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