Rosetta

“And the Dardenne brothers. And then we come to these guys, who are my favorite filmmakers in the world, because they manage to talk about young people in a way that I have never seen anyone do the way they do it. Rosetta is a beautiful film. It’s a very sad film. It’s shot in such a realistic way. And in that sense, it has a conversation with the way Brazilians shoot their films as well. I think that’s exactly what the Dardenne brothers do with their films.”

“I actually watched this movie on Criterion Channel relatively recently. Rosetta by the Dardenne brothers. They’re these just tremendous Belgian brothers that make these beautiful, compassionate film about, I guess, Real Life. And this is a film about a young girl who’s living in, like, a caravan park, and her mom’s an alcoholic, and she’s just trying to hold everything together and she eventually gets a job working in a waffle stall... She’s magnificent in this, so much respect to her.”

“But Rosetta. I want to shout out the Dardenne brothers. So, so influential. Kid with a Bike. I think it’s also in this collection. I just bought that as well, so I can’t take it today, but go see this.”