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Jean-Pierre Dardenne
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Director, Producer, Co-producer, Screenwriter, Executive Producer, Associate Producer Born: 1951 in Engis, Belgium Biography:Working with his younger brother Luc, Belgian filmmaker Jean-Pierre Dardenne became one of the burgeoning stars of international art cinema in the 1990s with their rigorous dramas about life in the depressed industrial district around Liège on Belgium's Meuse River. Filtering their political sensibilities through the lens of fiction, the Dardennes explored the clash between personal morality and the requirements for survival in such searing, intimately shot works as La Promesse (1996) and Rosetta (1999).
Born in Engis, Dardenne grew up in the Belgian steel town Seraing. Though his family was middle-class, Jean-Pierre came of age amid the labor movement of the 1960s, missing school during strikes and witnessing rallies in the town center. Forbidden by his father to watch TV or see movies while he and his brother were growing up, Jean-Pierre horrified his parents by moving to Brussels when he was 17... Full Biography
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