Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

Titreenp SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

SunnyHello Nice effects though.

Allissa .Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

SnoopyStyle Bruno is a hustler petty thief stealing with teen boy Steve. He owes money to violent thugs. His girlfriend Sonia just has newborn Jimmy. They adore each other. He's approached by underground adoption lady. When she leaves Jimmy alone with him, he decides to sell the baby. She's horrified and passes out. He brings her to the hospital and quickly retrieves Jimmy. Sonia recovers and is furious at him.The style is long quiet takes. The characters aren't always doing something. Déborah François is great as Sonia. The problem is that Jérémie Renier is so lackluster. His acting is very blank for the most part. The best compliment I can say about him is that he doesn't look like he's acting. There is one great section when Sonia returns to the apartment with Jimmy. It has almost no tension for long stretches and a couple of great scenes.

Roger Burke This is a simple story about two young unmarried people. The young man, Bruno (Jeremie Rennier) is a street hustler and thief; the young woman, Sonia (Deborah Francois), simply lives on her social security benefits. Together, they have fun, work the streets, laze about, and generally do very little – much like children.Until comes the day when Sonia, as the film opens, delivers of a son, Jimmy (look in the cast list to see who plays that part). While Sonia is busy at the welfare office, Bruno goes for a walk and unilaterally decides to sell Jimmy to the illegal trade in babies. The rest of the plot then follows, as Bruno desperately tries to get Jimmy back so that he can redeem himself with Sonia.With great acting and direction, this is a powerful, gritty, realistic story on film. It's the sort of story you'd read about in the media, almost every day, where people abandon, steal, maltreat, kill babies. This is one such story in fictional form, and much better than I'd hoped. I'm reminded of early films from Ken Loach or Joseph Losey.The production is faultless; the settings are suitably filthy urban; the actors just perfect – and seemingly unlovable, unfit, unworthy of the babe, especially Bruno. Neither of them is particularly likable; much of the time, Bruno displays an almost sociopathic pathology. They are, however, both victims of modernity – and the luck of the draw.There is no sound track. There is no comedic relief. There is only grief, despair, anger, rejection and, finally, some sort of hope. Maybe that's how life truly is, for a large section of humanity? It's not fantasy. Actually, it's so real, it's not even entertainment as we all like to see it.Give this nine out of ten. Recommended for all adults, young and old.March 14, 2013

bbrooks94 A truly brilliant film. It follows Bruno (Jérémie Renier), an amoral and simple man who performs petty crimes to survive after his girlfriend Sonia becomes pregnant. They seem to be doing 'well' enough, high on each other's apparently adolescent passion, until Bruno calmly commits a surprising (but not irreversible) act, one which tells us so much of his simplistic and unknowing nature. This man clearly has no understanding of the concept of fatherhood. Without giving too much away, this act causes Bruno to follow a seemingly never-ending path of desperation and misery which reveals his frustrating but tragic immaturity. Obvious, yes, but the title of course refers to Bruno, a man with either an unconventional or perhaps more likely no coherent moral understanding of life. He is like the newborn baby, in need of Sonia and unable to survive on his own wits. Superb, matter-of-fact performance from Renier made bitingly realistic through the Dardennes characteristic close framing and tracking and poetic naturalism (built through their ambient use of light and sound. We must interpret the characters and events ourselves. The truth is concealed through long silences and slow pacing) and which truly makes you feel like you are an observer to every scene.

tjsprik I will admit up front that I didn't watch this entire movie. Why? Because I couldn't make it past the first 30 minutes.The mother and father are portrayed as adult children with a child of their own. I suppose if I had kept watching, the father, Bruno, would be revealed to be the true infant who proceeds to grow up during the film.Whoever wrote and directed this movie obviously has no experience with childbirth. The young lady who has just given birth is shown dashing around, chasing and being chased by her boyfriend, and also telling him she wants to sleep with him. I've given birth 4 times, and can guarantee you that running, chasing, and sex are not something that new moms are capable of doing! Ridiculous.I only scored this 3* because I didn't see the whole thing, and perhaps it gets better as it goes on. Please, don't waste your time.