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The Son
Directed by
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
,
Luc Dardenne
2002
1h 43m
Mystery
,
Drama
7.5
88%
85%
7.5
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A joinery instructor at a rehab center refuses to take a new teen as his apprentice, but then begins to follow the boy through the hallways and streets.
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Cast of The Son
Olivier Gourmet
Olivier
Morgan Marinne
Francis
Isabella Soupart
Magali
Nassim Hassaïni
Omar
Pierre Nisse
Apprenti Soudeur 1
Anne Gerard
La Mère de Dany
Annette Closset
La Directrice du Centre
Félicien Pitsaer
Steve
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Director / Writer / Producer
Luc Dardenne
Director / Writer / Producer
Igor Gabriel
Production Design
Alain Marcoen
Director Of Photography
Monic Parelle
Costume Design
Marie-Hélène Dozo
Editor
The Son Ratings & Reviews
In These Times
Joshua Rothkopf
The Dardennes build drama slowly and deliberately, often perching their handheld cameras right at their subjects' earlobes or on the backs of their necks. It's an odd choice, but one that works improbably well in achieving intimacy.
Film Comment Magazine
Phillip Lopate
The instructor is played by Olivier Gourmet in an extraordinarily physical (and cerebral) performance.
Decent Films
Steven D. Greydanus
Actions, not words or feelings, are at the center of The Son, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's challenging, nearly religious parable of humanity, fallenness, and grace.
Arizona Republic
Kathy Cano-Murillo
A substantial story about how one man handles his personal turmoil.
Seattle Times
John Hartl
[Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's] most gripping film to date.
Los Angeles Times
Manohla Dargis
A gentle warning that in a world guided by an eye for an eye, everyone ends up blind.
L.A. Weekly
Ella Taylor
One waits for closure, and instead there is the slowly unfolding revelation of a man torn between rage at the loss of his son, and the unspoken desire, welling up like a long-suppressed groan, to become a father again.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
A shrewd, highly controlled little film.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
It is as assured and flawless a telling of sadness and joy as I have ever seen.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
This is a fine, uncompromising film, and Gourmet's performance should be called great.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
I can't deny being stirred by the wildly melodramatic climax of The Son, with its thunderously quiescent Zen Buddhist conclusion.
Slate
David Edelstein
This is an astonishing movie.
Filmcritic.com
Nick Schager
What keeps the tension at a fever pitch is not the narrative's progress, but the inscrutability and unpredictability of its protagonist, Olivier.
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
At the movie's abrupt end, we're left wondering if we really, really got it. That's not such a bad thing ... but we're also left wondering if it was all worth the time and effort.
Newsday
John Anderson
The most spiritually potent and questioning movie we are likely to see this year, one whose basic and often elusive lesson is how rigorous, demanding and costly it can be to behave with charity and act with forgiveness.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
A finely acted and written movie that, in its low-key way, packs a wallop.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
Like the homely, useful boxes Olivier teaches his prodigals to build, it is sturdy, durable and, in its downcast, unobtrusive way, miraculous.
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
A masterfully rough-hewn piece of work -- it has the unmediated feel of a single, sustained scene.
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
Despite the film's overwhelming bleakness, its Bressonian human spirit is unmistakable.
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
Reminiscent of a finely crafted short story that, through an economy of means and meticulous attention to detail, builds nicely to a climax that produces a singular emotional effect on an observer.
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