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The Child
Directed by
Luc Dardenne
,
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
R
2005
1h 36m
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Bruno and Sonia, a young couple living off her benefit and the thefts committed by his gang, have a new source of money: their newborn son.
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Cast of The Child
Jérémie Renier
Bruno
Déborah François
Sonia
Olivier Gourmet
Policier
Jérémie Segard
Steve
Stéphane Bissot
La receleuse
François Olivier
Remy
Mireille Bailly
Mère de Bruno
Fabrizio Rongione
Jeune Bandit
Anne Gerard
Commerçante
Bernard Marbaix
Commerçante
Jean-Claude Boniverd
Le Policier en civil
Frédéric Bodson
Bandit plus âgé
Marie-Rose Roland
Une infirmière
Leon Michaux
Policier Commissariat
Delphine Tomson
La fille aux cheveux rouges
Stéphane Marsin
Jeune Homme
Samuel De Ryck
Thomas
Hicham Tiberkanine
Abdel
Hachemi Haddad
La concierge du toit
Cécile Boland
La vendeuse landau
The Child Ratings & Reviews
The Ringer
Adam Nayman
L'Enfant deals in matters of (organized) crime and punishment without compromising its emotional acuity or spiritual purity.
Newsweek
David Ansen
Unfolding in real time on the scruffy working-class streets of industrial Belgium, this harrowingly intense odyssey charts Bruno's desperate search for redemption.
Arizona Republic
Richard Nilsen
What is astonishing, and most admirable, is the way the filmmakers manage to create sympathy for this pathetic loser.
Austin Chronicle
Marrit Ingman
An observant and effective study in character and setting, suitably grave and distinctively realized.
New York Magazine/Vulture
David Edelstein
Every act in the film has a mythic resonance.
Detroit Free Press
No one is likely to leave L'Enfant unaffected by the Dardennes incisive exploration of the consequences of a world where some of its citizens have found a way to rationalize, and even ignore, what was if not unimaginable, at least unforgivable.
Denver Post
Michael Booth
A gritty slice of real life, relentlessly in focus, though always humane.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
Like all the Dardennes' films, L'Enfant is a vivid, Dickensian report from the most dispossessed precincts of society.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Here is a film where God does not intervene and the directors do not mistake themselves for God. It makes the solutions at the ends of other pictures seem like child's play.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Without a lot of overheated action, the consequences of Bruno's behavior cloud the next few hours of his life. The character is a surprise as both a dramatic creation and a human being.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
The film belongs to Jeremie Renier and Deborah Francois.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
Renier is a tiger, clawing into the character with teeth filed to razor sharpness only to have the weight of his morally heinous decisions dull them to cub-like nubs.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
Everything about L'Enfant feels devastatingly real.
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein
For all the squalor and extremely upsetting subject matter, you can't take your eyes off the screen. The Dardennes have a gift of finding a sort of beauty in ugliness.
Houston Chronicle
Amy Biancolli
Even for a useless criminal, Bruno is just not a compelling personality. Unreadable lumps generally aren't.
Dallas Morning News
Chris Vognar
Deceptively simple, stripped to the bare necessities, it quietly dramatizes the consequences of lying, cheating and stealing in a way that takes your intelligence for granted.
Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
Preachy, overly symbolic and worst of all, dull.
Newsday
Jan Stuart
The intimacy the directors achieve with their actors is nothing short of uncanny: Renier and François go about their business with such naturalness and determination, you forget there are performances going on.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
It's expertly directed in a low-key, naturalistic way that brings to mind French auteur Robert Bresson. It's also emotionally forceful and contains heartbreaking performances by Jeremie Renier as Bruno and Déborah François as Sonia.
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
This is a movie about the kind of everyday miracle we all need to believe can happen -- how the tiniest glimmer of human connection can lead the most miserable specimen out of darkness.
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