The quarter of an hour of fame: The Dardenne brothers for the film “Tori and Lokita”

A film to discover right now at the “Tori and Lokita” cinema

Two African minors who arrived alone in Belgium are waiting for papers, Tori and Lokita must fight for their survival. Through the misfortunes that befall the young Beninese boy and the young Cameroonian girl, then appear the excesses and flaws of our Western societies.

What drives Cannes’ most awarded filmmakers?

The Dardenne brothers twice webbed in Cannes with Rosetta (1999) and The Child (2005), once again managed to slip into the charts with their twelfth film, crowned in 2022 with a 75th anniversary award. This makes them the most awarded filmmakers in the history of the Cannes Film Festival. Let’s spend a quarter of an hour with them at Adrien Mangano’s France Bleu Azur microphone:

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You will meet the young girl who plays Lokita: Joely Mbundu, 18 years old who, following a casting, becomes the heroine of the film. She discovers the profession of actress and goes from anonymity to star status on the Red Carpet of the Cannes Film Festival

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