Life on earth: the films of Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne.

THE ARRIVAL OF L'Enfant (The Child), the fourth in a series of closely related feature films from Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, offers a welcome opportunity to consider--and indeed celebrate--the Belgian brothers' achievements to date. Their films are intimately interconnected, both stylistically and thematically, to the extent that there have been hostile murmurings that the Dardennes have not made four films but the same film four times.

This is totally unjust: In certain respects, it is true, the films are variations on a set of themes; but the cumulative effect is that each ...

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