Friday, 30 March 2012

The Kid with a Bike/Le Gamin au Velo (BE/FR, 2011)

The brothers Dardenne return to familiar territory (and at least one actor) here; Cyril, a troubled orphan, is partially adopted by the kindly hairdresser Samantha. Cyril's father wants nothing to do with him, and, his tenacity observed, he's soon taken under the wing of a local undesirable.

Ordinary people and ordinary lives then, it's a humane, believable, naturalistic and ultimately likeable film.

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