'Simple yet extremely powerful film' - Shelia Johnston, THE INDEPENDENT 'By giving the Palme d’Or to The Child, they have honoured a profoundly moving and engaging realist picture by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne... It is a terrifying and emotionally harrowing story, given depth by two superb performances... the festival did itself a favour by paying the highest tribute to a film that has a compelling and unapologetic moral seriousness' - Peter Bradshaw, THE GUARDIAN '... evidence that screen realism is alive and thriving' - Jonathan Romney, THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY 'A worthy winner of the Palme d’Or' - Dave Calhoun, TIME OUT 'Another near-perfect work' - Nick James, SIGHT AND SOUND 'Those masters of small-scale realism, Belgian brothers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, have created another beautifully acted, exquisitely observed morality tale in The Child...' - Scott Foundas, VARIETY 'Evocative film-making and powerful performances' - THE TIMES 'The Dardenne brothers’ agonising suspenseful story' - SIGHT AND SOUND 'The Dardenne brothers prove it’s possible to create a film utterly in keeping with all its pre- decessors while managing to produce something fresh and quite devastating in its emotional punch... an ending of almost sublime grace and power is assured. En route, they provide a wonderfully evocative, accurate account of life on the streets, their astute observations of telling details beautifully served by performances of enormous subtlety and conviction. Most re- markable, a chase sequence in the final act is as suspenseful as anything ever on offer in a Hollywood action-movie. Absolutely terrific' - Geoff Andrew, TIME OUT 'Alternately heart-rending and uplifting' - NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL 'Jeremie Renier is superb' - TIME OUT 'Terrific... Often acridly funny... heart-stoppingly tense' - Sukhdev Sandhu, THE DAILY TELEGRAPH 'The Child is so morally absorbing and dramatically exciting that I can barely breathe' - Sukhdev Sandhu, THE DAILY TELEGRAPH 'The Child maintains the near miraculous achievement of brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne in creating uncompromisingly powerful, minimalist, neorealist, humanist cinema for the 21st cen- tury... intimate and poignant... fresh, incisive and, perhaps more surprisingly, at times intensely suspenseful Richard Falcon, SIGHT AND SOUND