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The Kid with a Bike is a 2011 drama film written and directed by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. Set in Seraing, Belgium, it tells the story of a 12-year-old boy who turns to a woman for comfort after his father has abandoned him.
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Cyril, an eleven-year-old boy who lives in an orphanage. The boy escapes and repeats rumors while waiting anxiously for his father's reunion, but soon finds out that his father has sold the bicycle he treasured, and at the same time abandoned him. Meanwhile, Samantha, the owner of a local hairdresser, runs into Cyril and takes on the role of a foster mother herself. Samantha wraps Cyril, who is stained with an…More
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Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2011 Premio del Jurado en el Festival de Cannes en 2011 It was only after I finished watching this film that I realized that I already knew some of the work of directors Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne because some time ago I watched _La Fille Inconnue (The Unknown Girl)_ with Adèle Haenel (_Portrait of a lady on fire_). During the hundred minutes of the tape I f…More
The Kid With A Bike is a French film released in 2011 that did not end up as the French nominee for Best Foreign Language Film. Instead, the French put forward *Declaration of War*, which did not make the Academy's short list. Having seen all five films on the Academy short list for 2012, it is my opinion that *Kid With A Bike* could have made the list. I would place it fourth of the foreign language films I saw tha…More