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Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Birthday:
21 April 1951
Biography
[on Deux jours, une nuit (2014)] (Luc) wanted to show how this woman, without realizing it, over one weekend, manages to inspire a solidarity that was totally lost in the workplace. In the attempt to save herself, she manages to recreate this important element: solidarity. This is what interested us. Not pointing the finger at who is to blame, whether it's t...
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[on Deux jours, une nuit (2014)] (Luc) wanted to show how this woman, without realizing it, over one weekend, manages to inspire a solidarity that was totally lost in the workplace. In the attempt to save herself, she manages to recreate this important element: solidarity. This is what interested us. Not pointing the finger at who is to blame, whether it's the company, our society or the harsh competitiveness of the working environment.
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[Palme d'Or acceptance speech for Rosetta (1999)] I'll try and be as simple as the film we have made. Thank you for having loved Rosetta. Thank you very much.
[Palme d'Or acceptance speech for Rosetta (1999)] I'll try and be as simple as the film we have made. Thank you for having loved Rosetta. Thank you very much.
We are not Spielberg. Spielberg is successful, not us. [on himself and his brother Luc]
We are not Spielberg. Spielberg is successful, not us. [on himself and his brother Luc]
The truth is always less interesting than the fiction.
The truth is always less interesting than the fiction.
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
After studying drama in the arts institute, Jean Pierre Dardenne and his brother Luc made some videos about the rough life in blue-collar small towns in the Wallonie. After their meeting with filmmaker Armad Gatti and cinematographer Ned Burgess, they decided to enter in the movie business.In 1978 they shot their first documentary, Le chant du rossignol, about the resistance against the Nazis during the second world war in Belgium. In 1986 they shot their first fiction movie, Falsch, about a Jewish family massacred by the Nazis. After their second movie, Je pense a vous, they released La Promesse, a movie about inmigration in Belgium. The film was a success worldwide winning awards in many festivals.In 1999 they had another hit with Rosetta, that won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Festival. The movie tells the story of a blue collar worker with an alcoholic mother who tries to have a better life in a small belgium city.In 2002, they came back to Cannes with their last movie, Le Fils, that won the ecumenical jury prize and the award for best actor for Olivier Gourmet.
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