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The Son

Released 2003
Distributor New Yorker Films

Directed by  Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne, The Son is a bundle of dynamite just waiting to go off. Olivier Gourmet is a cold-hearted carpenter and Morgan Marinne is his new apprentice, each holding a different piece of a sinister puzzle. A uniquely disturbing mystery, the film garnered excellent reviews and Gourmet received the Best Actor Award at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.

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About David Zeiger

Guggenheim Fellow David Zeiger has been making documentary films and series for 20 years, starting with The Band, a film about his son’s junior year in high school, broadcast on the PBS series P.O.V. in 1997. His short documentary, Funny Old Guys, was broadcast in 2002 by HBO. His 2006 film, Sir! No Sir!, ran theatrically in 65 cities throughout the U.S. and Canada and was broadcast in 200 countries worldwide. It won Best Documentary at the Los Angeles Film Festival (Audience Award) and Hamptons Film Festival, and Seeds of War Award at the Full Frame Documentary Festival. In 2010 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and in 2012 completed his first narrative feature, Sweet Old World.

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