L?Enfant
(?The Child,?
2005) Dispossessed twenty-year old Bruno lives with his eighteen-year-old
girlfriend in an eastern Belgian steel town. Their lives when Sonia gives
birth to their child, Jimmy. After Jimmy's birth, she finds that Bruno has
sublet their apartment to total strangers. Desperate for money and unable to face his parental responsibilities, Bruno sells Jimmy to a black market connection, who promises to find the child an adoptive home. Realizing the error in his actions Bruno sets out to try and undo his callous deed, leading him to a powerful personal transformation. The Dardenne brothers
revived the Golden Palm, Cannes Film Festival (2005).
Location: Montezuma Hall, SDSU campus
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(?The Child,?
2005) Dispossessed twenty-year old Bruno lives with his eighteen-year-old
girlfriend in an eastern Belgian steel town. Their lives when Sonia gives
birth to their child, Jimmy. After Jimmy's birth, she finds that Bruno has
sublet their apartment to total strangers. Desperate for money and unable to face his parental responsibilities, Bruno sells Jimmy to a black market connection, who promises to find the child an adoptive home. Realizing the error in his actions Bruno sets out to try and undo his callous deed, leading him to a powerful personal transformation. The Dardenne brothers
revived the Golden Palm, Cannes Film Festival (2005).
Location: Montezuma Hall, SDSU campus
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