Le fils

Le fils

  • Director: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
  • Writer: Jean-Pierre Dardenne,Luc Dardenne
  • Countries of origin: Belgium, France
  • Language: French
  • Release date: October 9, 2002
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital
  • Aspect ratio: 1.66 : 1
  • Also known as: The Son
  • "Fils, Le" is a drama film directed by Jean-Pierre Darnay and Luc Darney, starring Olivier Gourmet and Morgan Marinne.
    The film tells the story of Oliver, an introverted carpenter whose young son died in a tragedy a few years ago. A boy named Francis runs to find him, but Oliver refuses to take him in. But then began to quietly follow the boy's story.

    Details

    • Release date October 9, 2002
    • Filming locations Liège, Wallonia, Belgium
    • Production companies Archipel 35, Les Films du Fleuve, Radio Télévision Belge Francophone (RTBF)

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $70,262

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $10,048

    Gross worldwide

    $1,057,439

    Movie reviews

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    • By Khalil 2022-12-18 20:40:54

      I'm getting motion sickness

      The swaying over-the-shoulder camera position once made people feel that it was to express the characters' doubts and emotions. After shaking until the end of the film, they realized that the directors and brothers came from documentaries. 1. They are good at expressing long shots. 2. Holding the camera is simply unsteady.

      "who do you think You Are?!"

      "I have no idea…"

      Then I will answer for you:...

    • By Briana 2022-12-17 11:59:16

      We all became Olivier

      1. - Pourquoi tu quitte pas le centre?
          - Je suis bien au centre, je me sens utile.
      2. Maybe we all have to guess Olivier while watching this movie. Because we don't know how a father who has lost his son will think and behave in the face of a murderer. In the process of speculating, we all became Oliviers.
      3. Olivier has an extremely strong body, but also has an introverted personality. In the film, he asks Francis three times about murder, and each time Francis' innocuous...

    • By Tristin 2022-12-16 20:18:30

      "When making a film, you must be as calm as the Darney brothers. You must not be discouraged until the end of the film."

      1. Details. To portray a character, you must be proficient in the character's occupation, and portray the character through occupational details, while increasing the authenticity of the film. 2, the lines. How to properly add the important information of the main plot McGuffin in the daily dialogue that is nonsense, and attract the audience step by step, this film gives a good demonstration. 3, type ~ anti-type. As the old saying goes, antitypes are built on types. Both...

    • By Bryana 2022-12-14 13:24:40

      "Son of Others" without much feeling

      I also thought of this movie when I saw that the movie mentioned "Miryang" in the comments. There may be similarities in the subject matter, but the two movies are very different in terms of richness of content, exploration, and style.

      I was actually nervous when watching the movie, that is, for me, the movie had a suspense, whether the calm and patience in front of the father would have an explosion at the end, killing or how to get the little boy. It is impossible to have no...

    • By Garnett 2022-12-14 02:24:25

      Roger Ebert film critic translation

      ★★★★ (out of four stars) "Son of Others" is complete, self-sufficient, and unquestionable. Critics have nothing but praise for it. It requires no insight or explanation. It sees and explains everything. This is the most confident and perfect account of sadness and joy I have ever seen. I agree with Stanley Kaufman in The New Republic: A second viewing only highlights the greatness of the film. But I don't want to miss the first viewing, so I'll write carefully. Directors...

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    • By Melba 2023-09-30 07:28:08

      If you strangle him, the son is really dead; Dane's masterpiece, perfect and impeccable. 5.27@Shenzhen Broadway Film...

    • By Sylvester 2023-09-28 04:10:48

      The outline of the story of DANEZHAN@Shenzhen bc is not bad, but why do you have to use this kind of face-stunning lens... It really makes me dizzy when I look at it on the big screen. There are too many useless shots, and you don’t need to be meticulous if you want to express your emotions...

    • By Arden 2023-09-04 08:44:08

      Compared with the previous two works, the play has become more simple, and the most dramatic contradictions are handled as still as water but always tense, which is different from the fierce contradictions that broke out in the previous two works. Emotions are more in-depth and...

    • By Dorthy 2023-07-13 03:14:15

      The close-up close-up almost fills the frontal portrait of the character, which symbolizes the lonely state of mind of the father who lost his son. The back shot is the director's intervention and observation as a third-party perspective. When the father communicates with the manslaughter boy, such as carrying wood, the coherent performance requires the intervention of the medium and long-term perspective, so two people are framed in the picture, which represents the change of the father's...

    • By Santino 2023-05-30 05:08:10

      The ultimate in handheld photography, the whole film is completed in one go. Underneath the calm appearance, there are undercurrents and gradually deepening emotions (you will feel very nervous in the second half), the heroine of the Darney brothers, the acting is really good! Many are back, side, or thick spectacle lenses covering the eyes, portraying a reclusive father too...

    Movie plot

    The accidental killing of his son has plunged Olivier (Olivier Gourmet) into deep pain, and he will remember this bastard for the rest of his life, even if he was only a teenager, even if he was about to do what he did for himself. Pay the price for it.
    Time flies, and five years later, Olivier meets a boy named Francis (Morgan Marinne), who is none other than the murderer who once killed his son. Francis did not recognize Olivier, but...
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    Background creation

    Shot with a hand-held shoulder camera, the film has a rough graininess and a shaky, realistic style. The director spent half an hour showing the audience the appearance of Olivier, and a large number of close-ups revealed the character's personality without modification. Image movement was random, long lenses were overused, and the camera movement was so fast that many scenes were blurred, leaving the audience dizzy. But there is still...
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    Release date

    Country release/release date (details)
    The French Republic France23 May 2002......(Cannes Film Festival) (premiere)
    Russia Russia June 27, 2002......(Moscow Film Festival)
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    Evaluation action

    The Dani brothers from The Kingdom of Belgium are another pair of well-known brothers in the international film industry. They have a background in making documentaries and have 20 years of experience in making documentaries. Their documentary also focuses on the labor movement, as their city of birth is plagued by perennial unemployment. In 1987, his debut feature film "Falsch" was screened at the Cannes Film Festival and was well...
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    Movie quotes

    • Olivier: The boy that you killed was my son.