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Double-Act: Dardenne siblings talk brotherhood
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CANNES, France — Gray, wispy-haired Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne are more than just brothers born three years apart. The acclaimed Belgian directors, whose film “Two Days, One Night” lit up this year’s Cannes Film Festival, are also two cogs in the same creative machine, first fused together by their opposition to their religious father and now incapable of working apart. “At the start we thought, practically, that if one is ill for a week, it’s good as the other can continue working. But this isn’t true. We need each other for it,” says Jean-Pierre, 63. Luc, 60, goes further. “It’s a little psychological. That we are brothers that work together, it’s linked to our father. We opposed him a lot together when we were growing up over his morality, religion. It cemented us more than we think,” he says. Whatever the reason, their cinematic synthesis has worked with great success — the duo already have two Palmes d’Or under their belt since they first teamed up in 1978. The first winner was 1999’s “Rosetta,” about a 17-year-old girl, played by first-time actress Emilie Dequenne, who tried to escape her alcoholic mother. The second was 2005’s “The Child” — a tale of an adolescent father who wants to give up his baby. But this year’s gritty “Two Days, One Night,” which features a tour-de-force performance by Marion Cotillard as Sandra — a desperate and depressed mother of two trying to save her job at a solar-panel factory — could well hand the brothers a record-breaking third.
The message of the film, in which Cotillard’s Sandra tries to convince her 12 co-workers to forfeit their 1,000 euro bonus to save her job, is at heart a philosophical exploration of human solidarity versus selfinterest. A similar philosophical strand runs throughout their body of work, which spans 10 features and numerous documentaries over four decades. And it’s little wonder. Luc studied philosophy, while Jean-Pierre took drama. The brothers’ work has never strayed far from home (or autobiography). Both the fraught father-figure and the setting of their hometown, the deprived Belgian city of Liege, recur within their work. The bond between father and child featured strongly in “The Child,” but also crops up in this year’s offering, in which a dad literally comes to blows with his son over whether or not they should give up the bonus selflessly. This time around the father is the virtuous character. “We at first wanted the son to say “Yes”, and the father “No” (to helping Sandra). But we didn’t want to condemn the father in the film this time. We’ve already condemned too many fathers in our films! We felt bad. It’s a father-rehabilitation,” says Luc.
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American television personality La La Anthony arrives in Florence, Italy, Saturday, May 24, 2014. fashion designer Valentino’s 17th-century Chateau de Wideville west of Paris, where one of their events was being held. The couple also toured the Chateau of Versailles. The duo, who have one child together, were not shy about their romance; he briefly appeared on her reality show, and he gushed about his love for her in a talk show hosted by her mother, Kris Jenner. A topless Kardashian also starred in his music video for “Bound 2,” in which they simulated having sex on a motorcycle bike. West, 36, proposed to Kardashian, 33, in
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October on her birthday. He rented out San Francisco’s AT&T Park to pop the question. But when it came to the wedding, media was only able to get photos of the many celebrity guests at the wedding. Among the notables sighted arriving in Florence ahead of the nuptials were Steve McQueen, director of Oscar-winner “12 Years a Slave”; Lala Anthony, wife of NY Knicks basketball star Carmelo Anthony; Jaden Smith, the actor and teenage son of Will and Jada Smith; and Joe Francis of “Girls Gone Wild” video fame.
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Thai soldiers are surrounded by anti-coup protesters during a demonstration in Bangkok, Thailand, Sunday, May 25, 2014. Hundreds of protesters in the Thai capital are defying the junta’s warning against anti-coup demonstrations with a rally in the central shopping district that’s being closely watched by troops.
From left, director Jean-Pierre Dardenne, actress Marion Cotillard, actor Fabrizio Rongione and director Luc Dardenne arrive for the screening of Two Days, One Night (Deux jours, une nuit) at the 67th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Tuesday, May 20, 2014.
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FLORENCE, Italy — Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are officially “Bound” to each other. The celebrity couple, who have made a habit of over-the-top, public displays of affection, got hitched Saturday in a decidedly private spot: a Renaissance fortress in Florence. The nuptials were confirmed to The Associated Press by Kardashian’s representative, who noted the reporting of E! Online, the news site from the network that carries her reality show, “Keeping Up With The Kardashians.” E! Online reported the wedding party consisted of her sisters, while stepfather Bruce Jenner walked her down the aisle. Andrea Bocelli and John Legend sang for the couple at the reception. The city’s mayor’s office had said a week earlier that the couple had rented Belvedere Fort for a wedding to be performed by a Protestant minister, adding a flurry of excitement in the entertainment world about the ceremony, which had been anticipated for months. In the days before the nuptials, the pair held court in Paris, parading in front of photographers for pre-wedding festivities. Kardashian posted a picture on the social media site Instagram of the gardens of
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Thai anti-coup protesters defy junta ban Agence France-Presse
BANGKOK - Public anger at the Thai military’s coup grew Sunday as more than one thousand protesters shouting “Get Out!” marched across the capital Bangkok in defiance of an army warning against protests. Demonstrators began marching in the Chidlom district and made their way across the city to the Victory Monument cheered by onlookers, an AFP reporter at the scene said, after a tense standoff with armed soldiers in the city’s retail heart. It was the largest expression of dissent since the army seized power on Thursday after months of political turmoil. There was no sign of soldiers or police on the streets during the march Sunday, which went ahead despite a junta statement calling on people not to protest and a martial law ban on gatherings of more than five people.
“I am not afraid of them because the more we are afraid of them, the more they will stamp on us,” protester Kongjit Paennoy, 50, told AFP. “We want an election -- to choose our own boss.” The military has detained former premier Yingluck Shinawatra and scores of other ousted government leaders and political figures since the coup, which brought sharp international criticism. “I ask for people’s understanding on the current situation and that they refrain from anti-coup rallies, because democracy cannot proceed normally at the moment,” said junta spokesman Colonel Winthai Suvaree Sunday morning, add-
ing a warning against using social media to “incite” unrest. Before the main march, minor scuffles broke out as dozens of protesters, some waving signs reading “Junta Out” and “Fuck Coup”, staged a boisterous demonstration, jeering angrily and pushing at lines of armed soldiers outside a Bangkok shopping mall. At least two protesters were taken away by the troops, one bleeding, according to AFP journalists. Bangkok has seen several smaller outbreaks of protest against the junta since army chief General Prayut Chan-OCha launched his takeover on Thursday. Witnesses also reported demonstrations overnight in parts of the Shinawatra family’s northern power base, with rallies in the city of Khon Kaen and a heavy military presence in Thailand’s second largest city Chiang Mai. Continued on page 6