An almost too real Belgian film by the brothers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, a coming-of-age tale centered around the dutiful adolescent son of a Liège slumlord who furnishes substandard housing for illegal immigrants who can't complain. The boy's discovery of a sense of morality without any adult guidance is unforeseeably stirring; and the actors (principally Jérémie Renier and Olivier Gourmet, who have a precious moment of familial harmony in a leisure-hours duet at a nightclub microphone) are so natural, in addition to so unfamiliar, that it's sometimes hard to remember they are acting. (1996) — Duncan Shepherd
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