Hello, my name's Jocelyn LeClew, and I'm here today with Will Sloan, and you're listening to The Important Cinema Club.

And today, we're talking about the Dardan brothers.

That's right.

Festival Month finally concludes with the Kings of Khan.

Between 1999 and 2011, here are the prizes they won. Two

Palmed doors for Rosetta and Lafant. Best actor, Olivier Gourmet for the Sun, best screenplay for

Lauren's Silence, Grand Prix for the Kid with the Bike. Then, their 2014 film, no awards. No awards. That was two days one night. But then,

more recently, they won Best Director for Young Ahmed in 2019, and then won the 75th anniversary

prize for their last movie, Tori and Locita in 2017. So more often than not, almost every

time they win something. Now, what's surprising about their filmography is that looking at it, I assume that, boy, they've just been cranking them out forever. But when you talk about the ones that have been winning awards or the ones that are getting them critical attention, you have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, only nine, which doesn't seem that much in the grand scheme of things.

But man, per capita.

Yeah.

They were kicking around for a long time making documentaries in the late 70s and two feature

films before they finally found the specific voice that we're going to talk about today.

But you know, when they won the Palm Door in 1999 for Rosetta. That was considered actually a very

controversial win at the time. How come? So I have an article here by Roger Ebert from 1999. The

headline is con winners a strange crew. The survivors of the 52nd Cannes Film Festival met at the

Nice Airport on Monday like applicants for an emergency airlift. The carnage of the award ceremony was

still fresh in our mind. So the, oh God, we were just ravaged by this year's con choice made by.

People need to remember. The con is just a jury of random people that pick movies. That's right.

So the head of the jury was David Cronenberg that year, and it was considered a very arty list of movies.

Where is the Shrex, if you will?

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