The Kid with a Bike (Blu-ray) PG-13
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 27 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 12, 2013
- Originally Released: 2011
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Cécile De France, Thomas Doret, Jérémie Renier, Fabrizio Rongione & Egon DiMateo | |
Directed by | Luc Dardenne & Jean-Pierre Dardenne | |
Screenwriting by | Luc Dardenne & Jean-Pierre Dardenne | |
Photography by | Christine Plenus | |
Director of Photography: | Alain Marcoen |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
For a film that is as heartbreaking and real as The Kid with a Bike, the Dardennes do not strike one false note.
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Spectrum Culture
Rating: A- --
"The Kid With a Bike" vibrates with desperation, frustration and the simple unfairness of life, leavened with glimpses of hope.
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Detroit News
A contemporary fable [that] traffics in the childhood anxieties of bedtime stories...in a naturalistic setting that makes the viewer anxious.
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DCist
As Samantha says in her first words to Cyril, "You can hold onto me, but not so tight." Of course, it's when he loosens his grip that "The Kid With a Bike" tightens the one on its audience.
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Moveable Fest
Rating: 3/4 --
Hunched over the handlebars, the boy's body seems to carve a hole in the wind. And we watch as this unhappy, rejected child makes some terrible choices, some of which make us want to look away.
Seattle Times
Rating: 4/5 --
Doret's superb turn as Cyril may be the closest European cinema has come to finding an Antoine Doinel (the iconic star of François Truffaut's 1959 classic The 400 Blows) for the 21st century.
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CineVue
There is not a wasted shot in this stripped down, pared back fable. Yet, it accrues a deep and lasting power. You won't see many better this year.
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CNN.com
Product Description:
A boy who longs to be reunited with his family refuses to accept the reality of his circumstances in this drama from the sibling writing/directing team of Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne. Cyril (Thomas Doret) is an 11-year-old boy who loves his father and believes in him. The trouble is, Cyril's dad Guy (Jeremie Renier) is a bum who doesn't care about his son, doesn't want to spend his money caring for him, and has left the boy at an orphanage rather than keep him. While these facts are clear to everyone else, Cyril refuses to believe them, and his determination to be reunited with Guy, coupled with his discipline problems, makes him a chore to look after. Samantha (Cecile De France), who works in a beauty shop, offers to take Cyril on weekends so he can have some kind of a home life, but her determined compassion makes only so much of an impact on the youngster, who is still convinced he can find his father. As Samantha struggles to bond with Cyril, the boy finds an unfortunate father figure in Wes (Egon Di Mateo), a small-time crook who drafts Cyril into his latest criminal scheme. Jeremie Renier, who plays Guy in LE GAMIN AU VÉLO (aka THE KID WITH A BIKE), made his screen debut in an earlier film by the Dardenne Brothers, 1996's LA PROMESSE, in which he fittingly played a troubled youth.
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