The brothers brought the unerring eye for detail and the compassion for those on societys lowest rungs developed in their earlier documentary work to this absorbing drama about a teenager jeremie renier gradually coming to understand the implications of his. Les grignoux dossiers pedagogiques cinema et education. For the best experience please update your browser. When we first meet igor jeremie renier, a teenaged garage mechanic, he is stealing the wallet of an elderly woman whose car he is servicing.
A une stationservice, une femme agee fait le plein. I really have nothing but words of praise for this film and the dardenne brothers. Igor and his father, roger, are making a decent living renting apartments to illegal immigrants and sometimes working them illegally among other scams. In all films directors way create a film that is not practically enunciated but drawn out through the films drama presented on screen and off. Publication date 1980 topics modern fiction, gary, romain, 19141980, authors, french publisher paris. The promise is a 1996 drama film by the belgian brothers luc dardenne and jeanpierre dardenne. Immigrants plight, boys conscience the new york times. Publication date 1980 topics modern fiction, gary, romain, 19141980, authors, french. You can include an image to complement your analysis. The story is the kind that catches your interest quickly and never lets go. In the first, we find rosetta at the end of a very long day. The plot involves a father, roger, who mercilessly trafficks and exploits undocumented immigrants.