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- Height6′ 1½″ (1.87 m)
- Luc Dardenne was born on March 10, 1954 in Awirs, Wallonia, Belgium. He is a producer and director, known for Two Days, One Night (2014), The Kid with a Bike (2011) and The Child (2005).
- RelativesJean-Pierre Dardenne(Sibling)
- Hand-held camera.
- Characters often use bikes or bicycles.
- Stories revolving around poor characters who are struggling to make money.
- Father/son relationships.
- Arta Dobroshi, Marion Cotillard and Adèle Haenel are the only non-Belgian actors that he and his brother cast to lead one of their films since I'm Thinking of You (1993). Cotillard was cast in Two Days, One Night (2014) after meeting the brothers on the set of Rust and Bone (2012), which was co-produced by them. The original plan was to work together in The Unknown Girl (2016), which was eventually made years later with Haenel in the lead. Cotillard is the most famous actor that the Dardenne brothers have ever worked with.
- All of his films are set in Seraing, Liege, the Belgian town where him and his brother Jean-Pierre Dardenne were born and raised.
- Has directed one Oscar-nominated performance: Marion Cotillard in Two Days, One Night (2014).
- Darren Aronofsky is a fan of the Dardenne brothers and referred to them as "my heroes" in a post in his official Twitter account in 2014, after he attended the premiere of their film Two Days, One Night (2014) at the New York Film Festival and posed for a photo next to them. And while promoting Black Swan (2010) in 2010, Aronofsky told Alistair Harkness from The Scotsman that he changed his entire directing style for The Wrestler (2008) after seeing their work for the first time.
- Interviewed in "World Directors in Dialogue" by Bert Cardullo (Scarecrow Press, 2011).
- That happens a lot with experienced actors. They close down and protect themselves, and then all you get are the same mannerisms, the same tricks, the same character.
- Film-makers in Belgium are seen as arts and crafts makers. It is a small country. There is not really a film industry there at all.
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