Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
1979 - Belgique - Noir & Blanc - 40'
In Le Bateau de Léon M., the Dardenne brothers recall the mythical strike which paralysed Belgium during the sixties. Trying to patch up the rags of a tattered working class history, they question the memory of Léon, an important actor of a social class imagined by the authors as a kind of desirable homeland. His language was not easy to capture, it took a long tracking shot down the river to bring the words back to the surface.
Photography : Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Sound : Luc Dardenne
Editing : Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Production : Collectif Dérives
Distribution : Les Films du Fleuve (desk@lesfilmsdufleuve.be, +32 4 349 56 90)