Belgian brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's sixth fiction feature — and the second to win the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or — continues their exploration of the complex relationships between parents and their children as they struggle to get by on industrialized society's fringes. This time the father, Bruno (Dardenne regular Jeremie Renier), a panhandler and petty thief who plies his trade around the Belgian industrial city of Seraing, is in many ways still a child himself. Work, he maintains, is for suckers; there's always money to be found if you don't let your conscience get in the way. Bruno isn't above playing Fagin to a 14-year-old pickpocket...
Released:
2005
Rated:
R
Length:
100 mins