Le fils de Jean-Pierre et Luc Dardenne

Résumé du livre

A burning question is at the heart of the Dardenne brothers' film, it shapes its writing and its direction. A question that repeats itself endlessly until exhaustion? as Olivier repeats the very concrete gestures of the teacher that he is. Conveyed by the intertwining of images and sounds, it gradually penetrates the spectator to shake up his point of view, place him in the discomfort of doubt, of obsession. "What to do? Accept the boy or take revenge on him?" And behind this question is another deeper one: if the pain of loss legitimizes revenge, is the body capable of accomplishing it? Paul Vincent de Lestrade tries in this book to bring out this question and to show how by the means of its own the film answers it. In doing so, he outlines the main lines of cinematographic ethics and, through it, of the conception of the human and of the world that the film conveys. You will find, at the end of the volume, an interview with Jean-Pierre Duret, sound engineer on 'Le Fils' as on the majority of the Dardenne brothers' films. With frankness he returns to the conception of the film's soundtrack and describes a work process in which the "method" is constantly reinvented in collaboration and confrontation with reality. After a degree in cinema and audiovisual at the Sorbonne, in parallel with which he worked as a film critic for various student media, Paul Vincent de Lestrade entered INSAS where he obtained a master's degree in directing. His documentary and fictional works form a collection of portraits mainly questioning the relationship of bodies to the standards imposed on them and in particular the imperative of performance. "Le fils de Jean-Pierre et Luc Dardenne" is his first book.