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2[[caption-width-right:350:Jean-Pierre on the left, Luc on the right.]]
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4->''"We are the same: one person, four eyes."''
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6Jean-Pierre Dardenne (born 21 April 1951) and Luc Dardenne (born 10 March 1954) are two UsefulNotes/{{Belgi|um}}an brothers and directors acclaimed for their austere style.
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8Their work is deeply rooted in social realism, observing the trials and tribulations of the Belgian underclass. As you can imagine, their movies get ''bleak'', although they usually leave at least a little bit of hope for the protagonist at the end.
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10The Cannes Film Festival absolutely ''loves'' these guys. In 1999, the Dardenne brothers won the UsefulNotes/PalmeDOr for ''Film/{{Rosetta}}'', upsetting the predicted winner, ''Film/AllAboutMyMother''. Almost every movie they've made since then has won ''something'' at Cannes (the only exceptions being ''Deux jours, une nuit'' and ''Film/TheUnknownGirl''), and the two won the Palme a second time for ''Film/LEnfant'' in 2005.
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12!! Filmography
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14* ''Film/LaPromesse'' (1996)
15* ''Film/{{Rosetta}}'' (1999)
16* ''Le Fils'' (2002)
17* ''Film/LEnfant'' (2005)
18* ''Le silence de Lorna'' (2008)
19* ''Film/TheKidWithABike'' (2011)
20* ''Deux jours, une nuit'' (2014)
21* ''Film/TheUnknownGirl'' (''La Fille inconnue'') (2016)
22* ''Young Ahmed'' (''Le Jeune Ahmed'') (2019)
23* ''Tori and Lokita'' (''Tori et Lokita'') (2022)
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25!! Tropes
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27* BittersweetEnding: They prefer it to the DownerEnding, giving their characters a ray of hope.
28* CrapsackWorld: Contemporary Belgium might be hell on Earth according to them.
29* CapitalismIsBad: Very much so.
30* HumansAreBastards: This doesn't apply to all their films but they managed to make ones without any good characters.
31* ParentalAbandonment: Many offsprings are in this or that way left by their parents in the films of the brothers.
32* ProductionPosse: Several of their films have Creator/JeremieRenier in their cast.

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