L'Enfant (film)

L'Enfant
Theatrical poster
Directed by	Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Produced by	Jean-Pierre Dardenne Luc Dardenne Denis Freyd
Written by	Jean-Pierre Dardenne Luc Dardenne
Starring	Jérémie Renier Déborah François
Cinematography	Alain Marcoen
Edited by	Marie-Hélène Dozo
Distributed by	Sony Pictures Classics
Release dates	17 May 2005 (2005-05-17) (Cannes) 14 September 2005 (2005-09-14) (Belgium)
Running time	91 minutes
Country	Belgium
Language	French
Budget	€3.6 million^[1]
Box office	$5.5 million^[2]

L'Enfant (English: The Child) is a 2005 Belgian film directed by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, starring Jérémie Renier and Déborah François. The film was released under its French title in the US, and as The Child in the UK.

Plot

Bruno, 20, and Sonia, 18, are surviving on her welfare checks and Bruno's petty crimes when Sonia becomes pregnant. Bruno sells their baby to a black market adoption ring to make some quick cash. Faced with Sonia's shock, he regrets his mistake and buys the child back at a premium—but, after being turned away by Sonia, his mounting debts lead Bruno down a quick path to desperation.

Cast

Jérémie Renier as Bruno
Déborah François as Sonia
Jérémie Segard as Steve
Fabrizio Rongione
Olivier Gourmet

Critical response

L'Enfant received mostly positive reviews from critics. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives it a 86% approval rating, based on 106 reviews, with an average score of 7.5/10. The site's consensus reads, "The Dardennes continue to excel at presenting works of rigorous naturalism, with detached observations of authentic characters that nevertheless resonate with complex moral issues.".^[3] At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film received an average score of 87, based on 34 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".^[4]

Awards and nominations

L'Enfant won the Palme d'Or in 2005 Cannes Film Festival,^[5] making directors Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne twice winners of the Palme d'Or, having won the award previously in 1999 with Rosetta. The film received the André Cavens Award for Best Film by the Belgian Film Critics Association (UCC). It was also nominated for Best Film and Best Actor (for Jérémie Renier) at the European Film Awards.

The film was chosen as Belgium's official entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 78th Academy Awards, but did not secure a nomination.

Belgian Film Critics Association (Belgium)
Won: André Cavens Award
Cannes Film Festival (France)
- Won: Golden Palm^[5]
César Awards (France)
- Nominated: Best Director (Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne)
- Nominated: Best Film
- Nominated: Best Writing – Original (Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne)
- Nominated: Most Promising Actress (Déborah François)
David di Donatello Awards (Italy)
- Nominated: Best European Film
Joseph Plateau Awards (Belgium)
- Won: Best Actor (Jérémie Renier)
- Won: Best Actress (Déborah François)
- Won: Best Director (Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne)
- Won: Best Film
- Won: Best Screenplay (Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne)
London Film Critics (UK)
- Nominated: Foreign Language Film of the Year
Online Film Critics (USA)
- Nominated: Best Foreign Film
Toronto Film Critics (Canada)
- Won: Best Director (Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne)
- Won: Best Foreign Language Film

References

↑ http://www.jpbox-office.com/fichfilm.php?id=812
↑ "The Child". Boxofficemojo. Retrieved March 04, 2012.
↑ "L'Enfant (2006)". Rotten Tomatoes.
↑ "L'Enfant (The Child)". Metacritic.
1 2 "Festival de Cannes: L'Enfant". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-12-06.

External links

Official site
L'Enfant at the Internet Movie Database
L'Enfant at Metacritic
L'Enfant at Rotten Tomatoes
L'Enfant at AllMovie

Films directed by the Dardenne brothers

The Promise (1996) Rosetta (1999) The Son (2002) L'Enfant (2005) Lorna's Silence (2008) The Kid with a Bike (2011) Two Days, One Night (2014) The Unknown Girl (2016)

Awards for L'Enfant

Palme d'Or winners

1930s 1940s	Union Pacific – Cecil B. DeMille (1939) Iris and the Lieutenant – Alf Sjöberg (1946) The Lost Weekend – Billy Wilder (1946) The Red Meadows – Bodil Ipsen and Lau Lauritzen, Jr. (1946) Brief Encounter – David Lean (1946) María Candelaria – Emilio Fernández (1946) Neecha Nagar – Chetan Anand (1946) The Turning Point – Fridrikh Ermler (1946) La Symphonie Pastorale – Jean Delannoy (1946) The Last Chance – Leopold Lindtberg (1946) Men Without Wings – František Čáp (1946) Rome, Open City – Roberto Rossellini (1946) The Third Man – Carol Reed (1949)

1950s	Miss Julie – Alf Sjöberg (1951) Miracle in Milan – Vittorio De Sica (1951) The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice – Orson Welles (1952) Two Cents Worth of Hope – Renato Castellani (1952) The Wages of Fear – Henri-Georges Clouzot (1953) Gate of Hell – Teinosuke Kinugasa (1954) Marty – Delbert Mann (1955) The Silent World – Jacques Cousteau and Louis Malle (1956) Friendly Persuasion – William Wyler (1957) The Cranes Are Flying – Mikhail Kalatozov (1958) Black Orpheus – Marcel Camus (1959)

1960s	La Dolce Vita – Federico Fellini (1960) The Long Absence – Henri Colpi (1961) Viridiana – Luis Buñuel (1961) O Pagador de Promessas – Anselmo Duarte (1962) The Leopard – Luchino Visconti (1963) The Umbrellas of Cherbourg – Jacques Demy (1964) The Knack ...and How to Get It – Richard Lester (1965) A Man and a Woman – Claude Lelouch (1966) The Birds, the Bees and the Italians – Pietro Germi (1966) Blowup – Michelangelo Antonioni (1967) if.... – Lindsay Anderson (1969)

1970s	MASH – Robert Altman (1970) The Go-Between – Joseph Losey (1971) The Working Class Goes to Heaven – Elio Petri (1972) The Mattei Affair – Francesco Rosi (1972) The Hireling – Alan Bridges (1973) Scarecrow – Jerry Schatzberg (1973) The Conversation – Francis Ford Coppola (1974) Chronicle of the Years of Fire – Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina (1975) Taxi Driver – Martin Scorsese (1976) Padre Padrone – Paolo and Vittorio Taviani (1977) The Tree of Wooden Clogs – Ermanno Olmi (1978) Apocalypse Now – Francis Ford Coppola (1979) The Tin Drum – Volker Schlöndorff (1979)

1980s	All That Jazz – Bob Fosse (1980) Kagemusha – Akira Kurosawa (1980) Man of Iron – Andrzej Wajda (1981) Missing – Costa-Gavras (1982) Yol – Yılmaz Güney and Şerif Gören (1982) The Ballad of Narayama – Shohei Imamura (1983) Paris, Texas – Wim Wenders (1984) When Father Was Away on Business – Emir Kusturica (1985) The Mission – Roland Joffé (1986) Under the Sun of Satan – Maurice Pialat (1987) Pelle the Conqueror – Bille August (1988) Sex, Lies, and Videotape – Steven Soderbergh (1989)

1990s	Wild at Heart – David Lynch (1990) Barton Fink – Coen brothers (1991) The Best Intentions – Bille August (1992) Farewell My Concubine – Chen Kaige (1993) The Piano – Jane Campion (1993) Pulp Fiction – Quentin Tarantino (1994) Underground – Emir Kusturica (1995) Secrets & Lies – Mike Leigh (1996) Taste of Cherry – Abbas Kiarostami (1997) The Eel – Shohei Imamura (1997) Eternity and a Day – Theodoros Angelopoulos (1998) Rosetta – Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (1999)

2000s	Dancer in the Dark – Lars von Trier (2000) The Son's Room – Nanni Moretti (2001) The Pianist – Roman Polanski (2002) Elephant – Gus Van Sant (2003) Fahrenheit 9/11 – Michael Moore (2004) The Child – Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (2005) The Wind That Shakes the Barley – Ken Loach (2006) 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days – Cristian Mungiu (2007) The Class – Laurent Cantet (2008) The White Ribbon – Michael Haneke (2009)

2010s	Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives – Apichatpong Weerasethakul (2010) The Tree of Life – Terrence Malick (2011) Amour – Michael Haneke (2012) Blue Is the Warmest Colour – Abdellatif Kechiche (with actresses Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux) (2013) Winter Sleep – Nuri Bilge Ceylan (2014) Dheepan – Jacques Audiard (2015)

André Cavens Award for Best Film

1970s	The Son of Amir Is Dead – Jean-Jacques Andrien (1976) In the Name of the Führer – Lydia Chagoll (1977) Woman Between Wolf and Dog – André Delvaux (1979)

1980s	My Name Is Anna Magnani – Chris Vermorcken (1980) Le Grand Paysage d'Alexis Droeven – Jean-Jacques Andrien (1981) Le Lit – Marion Hänsel (1982) Brussels by Night – Marc Didden (1983) Permeke – Patrick Conrad and Henri Storck (1985) The van Paemel Family – Paul Cammermans (1986) Wedding in Galilee – Michel Khleifi (1987) The Abyss – André Delvaux (1988) Wait Until Spring, Bandini – Dominique Deruddere (1989)

1990s	Monsieur – Jean-Philippe Toussaint (1990) Toto the Hero – Jaco Van Dormael (1991) Man Bites Dog – Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel and Benoît Poelvoorde (1992) Just Friends – Marc-Henri Wajnberg (1993) La Vie sexuelle des Belges 1950-1978 – Jan Bucquoy (1994) Manneken Pis – Frank Van Passel (1995) La Promesse – Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (1996) Gabriel's Dream – Anne Lévy-Morelle (1997) Rosie – Patrice Toye (1998) Rosetta – Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (1999)

2000s	Lijmen/Het Been – Robbe De Hert (2000) No Man's Land – Danis Tanović (2001) The Son – Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (2002) On the Run / An Amazing Couple / After Life – Lucas Belvaux (2003) Gilles' Wife – Frédéric Fonteyne (2004) The Child – Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (2005) The Only One – Geoffrey Enthoven (2006) Private Property – Joachim Lafosse (2007) Eldorado – Bouli Lanners (2008) Unspoken – Fien Troch (2009)

2010s	Mr. Nobody – Jaco Van Dormael (2010) Bullhead – Michael R. Roskam (2011) Our Children – Joachim Lafosse (2012) Kid – Fien Troch (2013) Two Days, One Night – Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (2014) The Brand New Testament – Jaco Van Dormael (2015)

Lumières Award for Best French-Language Film

The Son (2003) The Barbarian Invasions (2004) Tomorrow We Move (2005) L'Enfant (2006) Bamako (2007) Délice Paloma (2008) Lorna's Silence (2009) I Killed My Mother (2010) A Screaming Man (2011) Incendies (2012) The Pirogue (2013) Horses of God (2014) Two Days, One Night (2015) Much Loved (2016)

Guldbagge Award for Best Foreign Film

1987–1990	1987: Bagdad Café – Percy Adlon 1988: No award 1989: A World Apart – Chris Menges 1990: Time of the Gypsies – Emir Kusturica

1991–2000	1991: Monsieur Hire – Patrice Leconte 1992: Husbands and Wives – Woody Allen 1993: The Piano – Jane Campion 1994: Short Cuts – Robert Altman 1995: Before the Rain – Milcho Manchevski 1996: Breaking the Waves – Lars von Trier 1997: The Ice Storm – Ang Lee 1998: The Celebration – Thomas Vinterberg 1999: All About My Mother – Pedro Almodóvar 2000: Magnolia – Paul Thomas Anderson

2001–2010	2001: Amélie – Jean-Pierre Jeunet 2002: The Man Without a Past – Aki Kaurismäki 2003: The Hours – Stephen Daldry 2004: The Return – Andrey Zvyagintsev 2005: L'Enfant – Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne 2006: The Lives of Others – Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck 2007: This Is England – Shane Meadows 2008: Lust, Caution – Ang Lee 2009: The White Ribbon – Michael Haneke 2010: Lourdes – Jessica Hausner

2011–present	2011: A Separation – Asghar Farhadi 2012: Amour – Michael Haneke 2013: Blue Is the Warmest Colour – Abdellatif Kechiche 2014: Two Days, One Night – Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne 2015: Leviathan – Andrey Zvyagintsev

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