Luc Dardenne
Series
Criterion collection volume 646
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Français
Formats
Description
After twelve-year-old Cyril's single father rejects him, the compassion of a stranger who agrees to take care of him helps him move forward.
Series
Criterion collection volume 771
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Sandra has just been released from the hospital to find that she no longer has a job. According to management, the only way Sandra can regain her position at the factory is to convince her co-workers to sacrifice their much-needed yearly bonuses. So, over the course of one weekend, Sandra must confront each co-worker individually in order to win a majority of their votes, before time runs out.
3) Rosetta
Series
Criterion collection volume 621
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
A young woman struggles to hold on to a job to support herself and her alcoholic mother.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
From two-time Palme d'Or winners Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne comes the story of seventeen-year-old Lokita and twelve-year-old Tori, two immigrants to Belgium from Cameroon and Benin, respectively whose siblinglike bond is the only resource they can depend on in their struggle for survival on the margins of European society. The pair work as performers in a cheap trattoria, dealing drugs on the side, while balancing the demands of an indifferent bureaucracy....
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Description
One evening after work hours, Jenny, a young doctor, allows the door buzzer at the small clinic where she works to go unanswered. It's only later that she learns that the person ringing was an unidentified African woman found dead shortly after by the side of a road. Consumed by the thought that she is to blame, Jenny embarks on an obsessive crusade to discover who the anonymous woman was and to see to it that she is not forgotten.
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Français
Description
Oliver is working as a carpentry instructor in a French suburb. He develops an obsession with a new student and offers him friendship and advice with a frightening lack of affection. Oliver's connection to the boy is slowly and painfully revealed.
10) La promesse
Series
Criterion collection volume 620
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
An absorbing drama about a Belgian teenager who is gradually coming to understand the implications of his father making a living off of abusing illegal alien workers.