10 · 19 · 19 Luc Dardenne presented El niño at the 17th FICM and unveiled the armchair with his name Share with twitter Share with facebook Share with mail Copy to clipboard Gustavo R. Gallardo Special guest at the 17th Morelia International Festival, Luc Dardenne, presented El niño (2005), a film he co-directed with his brother Jean-Pierre Dardenne. Accompanied by the founder and general director of the FICM, Daniela Michel, and the president of the Festival, Alejandro Ramírez, the Belgian director also unveiled the armchair with his name. Daniela Michel, Luc Dardenne, Alejandro Ramírez “I wanted to take it by plane! Thank you very much. I will be a ghost in room 4,” exclaimed the director. After the screening, the filmmaker commented, when asked by the public, that he did not make the film thinking about talking about real cases of child trafficking; “if we talked about what really happens, we would have to make a different type of film. We did not make a documentary about the Mexican or Brazilian reality.” About that, the director said that the theme seems to be approached normally, “that is why when Sonia tells him: “I sold the baby,” Bruno responds: “It doesn’t matter, we will make another one.” It is as if he did not understand but of course it is fiction, but he does not feel responsible for that child he is the father of.”
