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Lorsque le bateau de Léon M. descendit La Meuse pour la première fois

  • Lorsque le bateau de Léon M. descendit La Meuse pour la [...]
Genre : Political
Type : Documentary
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Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 1979
Format : Mid-length
Running time : 40 (in minutes)
Film Black & white

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.

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