★★★☆ (Four stars out of 10) This fierce little boy has been exercising, with a tense face and a firm expression, riding a bicycle, running across the street, knocking on doors and windows, demanding, demanding. He asked for his father's love, but he couldn't get it. He wanted his own bicycle, the acceptance of his adoptive mother, and the approval of Wes, a gangster in the community. His name is Cyril and he is played by Thomas Dore, and he has created an indelible image of need. The first time we met him was in a children's orphanage, where he was abandoned by his father, who promised to come back but never came back. He searched for his father methodically like a young detective—visiting the bars and pastry shops his father took him to, dialing a phone number he could never get through, trying to get into his father’s former apartment, where he was sure he would find it. His own bicycle, and maybe his father Guy (Jeremy Renais). Winner of the 2011 Cannes Jury Prize, Boys on a Bike is another compassionate film by the Belgian Darney brothers, who have a strong sympathy for estranged children and young people, and who are telling their stories so movingly It avoids melodrama and buzzwords. There were two things that could go seriously wrong in young Cyril's life, but they didn't necessarily happen. Brother Darney wouldn't break our hearts like that. They prefer dramas about everyday life, and things are not easy and smooth for a boy like Cyril. In simple real-life scenarios, they show a boy who is afraid of being abandoned but insists that his father just lost him and that his father would be happy to find him again. He couldn't stand restraint. He does not accept instructions. When he saw another boy passing by on his bike, he chased after him. Samantha (Cecil de France) (played) runs a local beauty shop, and she finds the boy and buys a bicycle from his father. It must have been painful for Cyril to learn that the other kid didn't steal the bike - it was his father who sold it. He saw a notice in the shop window, handwritten by his father. Cyril, who is about 11 years old, will remind some viewers of the main character in Truffaut's "The Four Hundred Blows," but the boy has an idol, Balzac, and Cyril has only his father, and he can't take the role. Cyril boldly asks Samantha if he can live at her house. She agreed to take him there over the weekend. It turned out badly. His approach to temptation was suffocating for fear of rejection. He asked, "Why did you allow me to come to your house?" She said honestly, "I don't know." He kept running away, and in the end Wes, who was a few years older than him, got him into big trouble. Wes had a big back, smoked, drank, and led a "gang". The Darney brothers are great at showing how easily Wes can manipulate Cyril to get his wish. At just 87 minutes, the film is short and concise and focused on Cyril. It doesn't "explain" him because everything about him is visible: his needs, his abandonment, his reckless determination, his unprotected youth. The young Thomas Dore approached the role with innate sincerity and focus, without a single second appearing contrived. The cast was small, but the Darneys used some regulars: Jeremy Resnais, the star of "The Kid," in which he played a very young father trying to make money by selling his own children. make money. The man in the bar is Olivier Gourmet, star of the Darney brothers' masterpiece "Son of Others." "Children" and "Son of Others". Time and time again, their themes are parents, children, alienation, rebellion. But the Darney brothers love the characters and don't blame them. They focus on their pain. They find beauty and share happiness. The most mysterious character in Boy on a Bicycle is not the kid, whose story is easy to understand after all. It's Samantha the Barber, played by the poignant Cecil de France. The actress's eyes are full of stories. There was a moment when she was forced to choose, and when she did, she revealed a lot about how she got to this point in her life. Cyril asked her, "Why did you allow me to come to your house?" She said she didn't know. When she made her choice, we felt she knew it well. See: his needs, his abandonment, his reckless determination, his unprotected youth. The young Thomas Dore approached the role with innate sincerity and focus, without a single second appearing contrived. The cast was small, but the Darney brothers used some regulars: Jeremy Resnais, the star of "The Children," in which he played a very young father trying to make money by selling his own children. make money. The man in the bar is Olivier Gourmet, star of the Darney brothers' masterpiece "Son of Others." "Children" and "Son of Others". Time and time again, their themes are parents, children, alienation, rebellion. But the Darney brothers love the characters and don't blame them. They focus on their pain. They find beauty and share happiness. The most mysterious character in Boy on a Bicycle is not the kid, whose story is easy to understand after all. It's Samantha the Barber, played by the poignant Cecil de France. The actress's eyes are full of stories. There was a moment when she was forced to choose, and when she did, she revealed a lot about how she got to this point in her life. Cyril asked her, "Why did you allow me to come to your house?" She said she didn't know. When she made her choice, we felt she knew it well. See: his needs, his abandonment, his reckless determination, his unprotected youth. The young Thomas Dore approached the role with innate sincerity and focus, without a single second appearing contrived. The cast was small, but the Darney brothers used some regulars: Jeremy Resnais, the star of "The Children," in which he played a very young father trying to make money by selling his own children. make money. The man in the bar is Olivier Gourmet, star of the Darney brothers' masterpiece "Son of Others." "Children" and "Son of Others". Time and time again, their themes are parents, children, alienation, rebellion. But the Darney brothers love the characters and don't blame them. They focus on their pain. They find beauty and share happiness. The most mysterious character in Boy on a Bicycle is not the kid, whose story is easy to understand after all. It's Samantha the Barber, played by the poignant Cecil de France. The actress's eyes are full of stories. There was a moment when she was forced to choose, and when she did, she revealed a lot about how she got to this point in her life. Cyril asked her, "Why did you allow me to come to your house?" She said she didn't know. When she made her choice, we felt she knew it well.
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