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The Kid with a Bike

Le gamin au vélo (The Kid with a Bike)

2011

Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne

Cécile De France, Thomas Doret, Jérémie Rénier, Fabrizio Rongione ...

6.8

9,164

Drama Cyril, almost 12, has only one plan: to find the father who left him temporarily in a children's home. By chance he meets Samantha, who runs a hairdressing salon and agrees to let him stay with her at weekends. Cyril doesn't recognize the love Samantha feels for him, a love he desperately needs to calm his rage.

	Author	Review
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"With customary restraint, the Dardenne brothers have added yet another exquisite entry to their masterful body of work"	POS
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"One thing that makes the Dardennes’ work so vibrant, at once new and seemingly timeless, is that they ask the most urgent questions we can ask of ourselves (...) and in nondoctrinaire, nonproscriptive terms."	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"The film is only 87 minutes long, lean and efficient, intent on Cyril (...) Thomas Doret fills the role with natural sincerity (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Thomas Doret gives a very good performance as Cyril (...) Despite some plot eccentricities, this is an affecting, artless film that wins over its audience with simplicity and force (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Jonathan Romney Screendaily	"One of the best films about childhood since 'Kes' - or for that matter 'Bicycle Thieves' (...) [It has] a satisfying and quietly moving close."	POS
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"[The] Dardenne brothers make movies that remind you the most compelling stories are unfolding right outside your window, rather than in outer space, the distant past or wherever cinema usually takes us"	POS
United States	Fernando F. Croce Slant	"It’s certainly the Dardennes’ fleetest, warmest film to date (...) The Dardennes continue to introduce subtly and fascinatingly stylized elements into the gritty realism of their films’ environment (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS

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