Cannes 2025: Cara Delevingne on the Power of Women

‘Young Mothers’ Review: Belgium’s Dardenne Brothers Adopt a Wider Focus for Their Most Humane Drama in More Than a Decade

Before turning their attention to ripped-from-reality social justice stories, Belgian brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne got their start making short documentaries set in working-class housing projects. They brought that same immersive, observational approach with them to their fiction features, reflected in the long-take handheld camerawork, gritty street-level locations and casting of nonprofessional actors that have […]

This Friday afternoon, the Légeois filmmakers were competing for a third Palme d'or with a new social drama that moved the Croisette. A choral film for once, following the journey of five young girls trying to create a link with their child... ...

The Dardenne Brothers’ ‘Young Mothers’ Gets 10.5-Minute Ovation In Cannes

Cannes habitués Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne debuted their latest film, Young Mothers, in Competition this afternoon, greeted by a 10.5-minute ovation. The story follows five girls who are housed in a shelter for young mothers. The teenagers are hoping for a better life for themselves and their babies. Marking their ninth time in Competition, […]

Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne competed for their third Palme d'or with "Young Mothers", which was released this Friday throughout France. The cross portrait of four young girls who took on both their early motherhood and their early motherhood. TF1Info spoke with the duo who revealed the late Émilie Dequenne in "Rosetta" in 1999. - "The success of Émilie Dequenne was his!": at the Cannes 2025 Festival, the confidences of the Dardenne brothers (Cu…

Cannes 2025: Cara Delevingne on the power of women

Arts Editor Eve Jackson reports from the Cannes Film Festival, highlighting the return of Belgian filmmakers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne with their new film "Young Mothers". The film offers a raw, intimate look at five young women navigating early motherhood in a communal home. Through their struggles, the Dardennes explore themes of resilience, solidarity, and liberation from generational hardship. Eve also contrasts this with Iranian director…

In the run for a third Golden Palm, Belgian directors present a very sensitive film, brighter than usual, about the fate of five very young mothers or pregnant women.