The Ardennes

Name: The Ardennes
Genre: Drama
Released: January 6, 2017
Duration: 96 min
Rating: 47
Cast: Eric Godon, Jan Bijvoet, Jeroen Perceval, Kevin Janssens, Peter Van den Begin

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Film Movement | Release Date: January 6, 2017 | Unrated

Starring: Eric Godon, Jan Bijvoet, Jeroen Perceval, Kevin Janssens, Peter Van den Begin, Rachid El Ghazaoui, Sam Louwyck, Veerle Baetens, Viviane de Muynck

Summary: Brothers Dave and Kenneth are reunited on Kenneth's release after four years in prison following a failed home invasion. While Kenneth is anxious to dive headfirst into the drug-centered existence that ensnared him in the first place, both Dave and Kenneth's erstwhile girlfriend, Sylvie, have adopted clean lifestyles. [Film Movement]

Director: Robin Pront

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Unrated

Runtime: 96 min

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Matt Donato

Jan 6, 2017

The Ardennes may be saturated in dark blues and snow-covered blankness, but it burns with bright fury as Robin Pront inches closer to his film’s inevitable breaking point. Read full review

Bilge Ebiri

Jan 5, 2017

In the end, for all the artistry on display, The Ardennes is more admirable than inspiring. It has style, and even suspense, but relatively little imagination. Read full review

A.O. Scott

Jan 5, 2017

Even though, in retrospect, The Ardennes feels a little obvious and secondhand, it unfolds with enough speed and wit to hold your attention. Read full review

Mike D'Angelo

Jan 4, 2017

First-time director Robin Pront serves up plenty of brooding atmosphere, but the screenplay, adapted from a stage play by Pront and Jeroen Perceval (who also plays the sensible Harvey Keitel role), never succeeds in eluding genre cliché. Read full review

Robert Abele

Jan 12, 2017

The Ardennes is an odd mixture of glum-chic style and emotional curiosity, a story of brotherly tensions that primarily comes off like a movie posing as a story of brotherly tensions. Read full review

Anthony Lane

Jan 9, 2017

Dave’s dread of his brother hooks The Ardennes onto a long chain of fraternal crime dramas, from “The Public Enemy” (1931) and “On the Waterfront” (1954) to “We Own the Night” (2007). Pront can hardly be blamed if his actors lack the sinew of Cagney or Brando. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Glenn Kenny

Jan 6, 2017

The movie, directed by Robin Pront from a script by Pront and Jeroen Perceval (who’s also one of the film’s lead actors), is well-crafted up to a point. But the end to which it is crafted is utterly useless. Read full review

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tipar

Jul 5, 2018

A very well packed Thriller better acted with no clue of where is going to end.

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