Young Ahmed believes he's a true Muslim, one of the few in his Muslim neighbourhood in Belgium. Le Jeune Ahmed (Young Ahmed) is a new film by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, two-time winners of the Palme d'Or who have returned to the Cannes Film Festival this week. Devastating as they can sometimes be, the Dardennes' films are also modern fables of humanity lost and found, redemption sought and sometimes attained. Young Ahmed sticks to the Dardenne master plan. In Dardenne films, there's no sentimentality, no feel-good reward, no snap judgement.

Source: Bangkok Post May 22, 2019 23:26 UTC