The Child : L'enfant

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Call Number: DVD FLC-FRE Child
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 1st Floor 1-week checkout	DVD FLC-FRE Child	1-week checkout	On Shelf

Originally released as a motion picture in 2005.
Special features: Interview with the directors.
Jérémie Renier, Déborah François, Jérémie Ségard, Fabrizio Rongione, Olivier Gourmet.
When a small-time crook and his young girlfriend have a child, he decides to sell the baby for money. When his girlfriend finds out, she goes into shock. While she recovers in the hospital, he tries to get their son back and redeem himself.
DVD, region 1, widescreen (1.66:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround.

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only OK submitted by LVDS on August 18, 2017, 8:44am French film. Two teens with a child...the mom is (sort of) responsible, the dad is homeless,a crook and manipulator. He steals for money, so the baby is just another commodity.

Dardennes Social Realism submitted by jibkidder on June 28, 2022, 10:22pm Dardennes fiction films can be a real relief if you're tired of the emotional manipulation of popular American films. I feel like material like this one might be more enjoyable in the hands of the Safdies, who might toy with stress in creating the arc of the film in a different way, and inject more humor and toy with it's mood through music. For me, this film does not succeed as much as, for example, The Kid With a Bike.