Jean-Pierre Dardenne Filmography

Born:: January 1, 1951 in Engis, Belgium
Occupation:: Associate Producer, Co-producer, Director, Executive Producer, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: Working with his younger brother Luc, Belgian filmmaker Jean-Pierre Dardenne became one of the burgeoning stars of international art cinema in the 1990s with their rigorous dramas about life in the depressed industrial district around Liège on Belgium's Meuse River. Filtering their political...Read More

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Le Silence de Lorna

Crew: Director

Synopsis: An Albanian woman living in Belgium finds her dreams of opening a snack bar with her boyfriend leading to tragedy after she agrees to marry a Russian Mafioso in order to gain citizenship. All Lorna wanted was to start a small business with her loving boyfriend, but in order to make that happen she Read More

2008
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Synopsis: Director Olivier Jahan offers an glimpse into The Director's Fortnight, a sidebar of the Cannes Film Festival conceived by a group of filmmakers known as the Société des Réalisateurs de Films who sought to counter the academism of the main part of the world-renowned festival. Pierre-Henri Deleau Read More

2008
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2008
To Each His Own Cinema

Crew: Director

Synopsis: At the time of its production, To Each His Own Cinema represented the latest arrival in a tidal wave of internationally oriented omnibus films, with no official relation between them but all produced within a few years of one another. Few could claim a roster of talent comparable to this one Read More

2007
L'Enfant

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Jérémie Renier, Déborah François, Jérémie Segard, Fabrizio Rongione, Olivier Gourmet

Synopsis: After learning he has a newborn son, a small-time thief attempts to go straight - but not until his amorality is pushed to its breaking point - in this social-problem drama from writer-directors Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne. Eighteen-year-old Sonia (Déborah Francois) has just given birth Read More

3/24/06
Le Monde Vivant

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Adrien Michaux, Alexis Loret, Laurence Cheilan, Christelle Prot

Synopsis: French filmmaker Eugène Green offers a playful but insightful variation on the mythos of a fairy tale in this comedy drama, in which a tale of brave knights and evil ogres is played in modern dress, with the actors speaking in contemporary slang. The Lion Knight (Alexis Loret) is a young nobleman Read More

1/20/06
The Colonel

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Olivier Gourmet, Robinson Stévenin, Cécile De France, Charles Aznavour, Bruno Solo

Synopsis: A man of principle is led down a sinister path in the name of patriotism in this drama co-written by the legendary political filmmaker Costa Gravas. Colonel DuPlan is a powerful but elderly officer in the French military who is found murdered in his flat after appearing on a television talk show Read More

2006
The Ax

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: José Garcia, Karin Viard, Olivier Gourmet, Ulrich Tukur, Yvon Back

2005
Misafa Lesafa

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Aharon Appelfeld

Synopsis: In her documentary From Language to Language, filmmaker Nurith Aviv explores the immigrant experience of language, focusing on ten artists and intellectuals, including the filmmaker herself, all first-generation Israelis, and their varied struggles with the need to assimilate and learn a new Read More

2004
The Son

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Olivier Gourmet, Morgan Marinne, Isabella Soupart, Remy Renaud, Nassim Hassaini

Synopsis: This downbeat drama by acclaimed Belgian filmmakers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne bears a thematic and formal resemblance to their previous works, La Promesse and the Palme D'Or winner Rosetta. Dardenne brothers' regular Olivier Gourmet is in every frame as the stern Olivier, a carpenter who Read More

1/10/03
Stormy Weather

Crew: Producer

Actors: Élodie Bouchez, Didda Jonsdottir, Baltasar Kormákur, Ingvar E. Sigurdsson, Christophe Sermet

2003
Le Soleil Assassine

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Charles Berling, Mehdi Dehbi, Ouassini Embarek, Abbes Zahmani, Clotilde de Bayser

Synopsis: Algerian filmmaker Abdelkrim Bahloul writes and directs the drama The Assassinated Sun, based on actual events in the newly independent Algeria of the 1970s. Following the country's liberation in 1962, the police didn't take kindly to gay poet Jean Senac (Charles Berling). Nevertheless, he was Read More

2003
Rosetta

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Émilie Dequenne, Fabrizio Rongione, Anne Yernaux, Olivier Gourmet

Synopsis: From the directors of the critically acclaimed La Promesse (1996) comes this stark portrayal of a young woman coming of age at the edge of social oblivion. Rosetta (Émilie Dequenne) lives in a tiny, beat-up trailer without toilets or running water with her alcoholic, irresponsible, and utterly Read More

11/5/99
La Promesse

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Assita Ouedraogo, Rasmane Ouedraogo

Synopsis: A young man born into criminal circumstances is forced to deal with his conscience in this drama from Belgium. Roger (Olivier Gourmet) is a corrupt businessman who smuggles illegal aliens into Antwerp and protects them from the law in exchange for working with his construction company. However Read More

1996
You're On My Mind

Crew: Director

1992
Falsch

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Bruno Cremer, Christian Crahay

Synopsis: In an apparently empty airport, a Jewish family has gathered to greet one of its members who has come there to be with them. However, the airport is actually the ante-room of Death, and the family member is a recently deceased American survivor of the Holocaust. Although the party begins by Read More

1987