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CANNES, May 26 – The Belgian brothers Dardenne, already legendary in Cannes, have won two Palme d'Or, to which is added yesterday the best director award for their story of a radicalized Muslim youth, Young Ahmed.
After Rosetta in 1999 and The child in 2005, "we start with a serious disability," joked Jean-Pierre Dardenne in an interview with AFP before leaving for Cannes.
For a film, "Cannes can be a speaker or the Terminator", he said about journalists and critics notorious Cannes whose opinions can make or break a film.
Their Young Ahmed, which was premiered for the first time at the festival, tells the tight story of a teenager who embraces Islamic extremism, a sensitive subject in her native Belgium who suffered deadly attacks in 2016.
Like their former slices of the working clbad, the picture unfolds in their native Wallonia, Wallonia, an area that served as a base for the terrorist cell that also perpetrated the deadly attacks in Paris in November. 2015.
"We do not make a film about a theme, we make a movie about characters, we tell the story of a child," said Jean-Pierre Dardenne, whose films are dark portraits of the most affected corners of the region.
The brothers, who are often called Belgium's answer to kitchen sinks, said the deadly Islamist attacks of recent years had led them to explore ways to mislead young people.
"We start the film with a radicalized boy and we try to say how he can or can not leave this type of enchantment and return to earth," said Jean-Pierre, 68, to AFP.
"Our film is interested in religion, how it can attract or take possession of you completely," said Luc, 65, to AFP, stressing that he was less concerned by the economic and social factors that usually dominate their films. – AFP
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