On the Back of Our Images:

by Luc Dardenne, Jeffrey Zuckerman (Translator)

Un diario di viaggio lungo quattordici anni, dal 1991 al 2005, attraverso la carriera di due cineasti tra i più significativi e celebrati del nostro tempo. "Dietro ai nostri occhi" è la testimonianza intima di due fratelli registi che scrivono, producono e dirigono come se fossero una mente sola, realizzando un cinema di storie umane che parte dal dato concreto "per cercare di dimenticare le idee di partenza", secondo le parole di Luc Dardenne, perché il cinema non è altro che un modo per interrogarsi sul nostro presente. Un'immersione nella vita quotidiana di due grandi artisti della nostra epoca, il racconto dettagliato di come un'intuizione può diventare una storia, migliore di qualunque manuale di sceneggiatura o di scrittura creativa.

Genres: Film

369 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2008

Reviews

[Pavel · Rating 5 out of 5]

UPDATE
The book was published in Russia thanks to the amazing people at Rosebud Publishing and Anton Dolin, the most popular film critic in Russia nowadays. His piece at the beginning of the book on Dardennes Brothers is very soulful and good and the interview he conducted as some sort of afterword is well done.
But that's in Russian edition, the main body of the book are Luc Dardenne's notes, it navigates us through the conceptions of their main films and gives huge philosophic (he has masters in philosophy and no film school education - thanks god!) and cultural background of their films. I saw the man in Moscow when he came to present the Russian edition a month ago. Exteriorly he looks like an ordinary modern bourgeois, with not even a little bit of artistic еpatage or arrogance you kinda expect from a multiple Palme d'Or winner. He speaks quietly and very thoughtful, answers very frankly and open-minded, and when he smiles you see so much kindness, and consideration towards other people, small wonder the brothers have created main humanistic works of art of our time. The book is just the same: its main feature, besides all the professional and cultural information, is unindifference (if that's a word) towards other people, towards ANOTHER person, as their main conception names it (coming from Emmanuel Levinas works), empathy and desire to make it an act of art. Stunningly beautiful.

The only complaint I have is that they've cut their scripts for Russian edition. That's too bad.


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More then anything at the moment I wish to read this book. Why there's no English translation???

[Vehka Kurjenmiekka · Rating 4 out of 5]

Luin kirjan viime yönä ja se oli ihana! Samaistuttava, hykerryttävä, hengästyttävä ja koskettava. Samalla mukaan kertyi vino pino elokuvia katsottavaksi ja kirjoja luettavaksi, koska Dardenne puhuu paljon myös taiteesta, joka on häntä koskettanut.

Tää on myös mainion nopealukuinen tyylinsä puolesta ja todella miellyttävä kirja luku- tai kirjoitusjumia selättämään.