Luc Dardenne

It's in the context of all these attacks which we have witnessed in Europe, in the United States, but also in Sri Lanka, the Middle East.

The film isn't a courtroom, the film is not an act of accusation. Our mission from the beginning was to see how this young Ahmed could - or couldn't - be brought back towards life.

We're interested in individuals, in details, in ordinary things to, hopefully, make something extra-ordinary of them, at least to widen the scope, but we're really staying with this suburban doctor who refuses to become richer by changing practice because she wants to stay where she is to find out the identity of The Unknown Girl. That's what we're interested in, the moral responsibility that Jenny feels.

Film-makers in Belgium are seen as arts and crafts makers. It is a small country. There is not really a film industry there at all.

seen small film country

Filming is like a house, you have to feel comfortable in it. by Luc Dardenne

Filming is like a house, you have to feel comfortable in it.

feel like you house

Filmmaking has always involved pairs: a director coupled with a producer, a director alongside an editor... The notion of couples is not foreign to cinema.

director always filmmaking cinema