Cannes Film Festival 2011: Grand Prix

A small masterpiece of the Dardenne brothers, creators of The Silence of Lorna and Child.

The latest film by the Dardenne brothers, two-fold winners of the Palme d'Or. This year the festival jury once again appreciated the Belgian duo giving the Boy cycling Grand Prix. Criticism hailed him a "small film" and most mature in their achievements.

The title boy is a 11-year-old Cyril, having only one desire - at any price to find the father who abandoned him. During another escape from the orphanage he meets a hairdresser, Samantha (Cécile de France). This meeting is a turning point in his life. Between a woman and a boy gradually germinates bond - Samantha agrees to Cyril visited her on weekends. At first the boy did not recognize the feelings, which gives him Samantha. Feelings, which needs more than ever. This is what it will help him master the anger and rebellion, and protect it from the temptations of the underworld, who undoubtedly becoming more and more attracted to him.

The boy on the bike this movie modest, simple, confirming the distinctive style and class of famous Belgians. They called "champions of human humanism" from years of looking at heroes such features as hope and selfless kindness that help challenge of a heartless world. But boy on a bicycle is much pogodniejszym film than the previous works Dardennów. Although it leaves no illusions that such things happen rather in a fairy tale, and not in the real world ... At a press conference in Cannes Dardennowie indeed admitted that their film is a variation on the famous tale of Little Red Riding Hood. What is clear in the created by them the film. This time, a more fairy-tale and symbolic.

Text: Cinema Under the Rams