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Jun 22, 2024 · Belgian filmmaker Lukas Dhont reaped praise and controversy four years ago with his debut "Girl", about a transitioning would-be ballerina. His new movie "Close", follows two 13-year-old boys whose friendship is tested when their relationship comes under scrutiny.
Jun 10, 2024 · PROFILE. Lukas Dhont. Director, Writer. About Lukas Dhont. The Belgian writer and director made his feature-length directorial debut in 2018 with "Girl," the story of a transgender ballerina....
Jun 16, 2024 · There's Still Tomorrow joins an impressive list of past SFF Prize-winners, including Moroccan documentary The Mother of All Lies in 2023, Lukas Dhont's Close in 2022, Mohammad Rasoulof's There Is No Evil in 2021 and Bong Joon-ho's Parasite in 2019.
2 days ago · This intimately tender and oppressively painful film about growing up is built around the immensely powerful debut performances by Eden Dambrine and Gustav De Waele. Lukas Dhont’s film was considered by many to be the emotional pinnacle of this year’s festival in Cannes, where it earned the Grand Prix (ex aequo).
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Jun 14, 2024 · From Belgium and directed by young director Lukas Dhont, it tells the story of two young boys who are best friends and inseparable. They are 12 going on 13 and just about to start High School. Leo’s family grows flowers and Remi’s work in a factory and a maternity hospital.
Jun 26, 2024 · Close is a 2022 French Subtitled drama about friendship and grief from writer and director Lukas Dhont. Set in the rolling French countryside, 13 year olds Leo and Remi share an incredible friendship, the kind you can only have when you are young.
Jun 11, 2024 · “Close,” winner of the 2022 Grand Jury Prize at Cannes and directed by Lukas Dhont who wrote the screenplay with Angelo Tijssens, is the intimate portrait of two close friends whose relationship is hit by the wall of adolescent misinterpretation. Rémi and Léo are the best of friends.
