Mortal Ethics: Reading Levinas with the Dardenne Brothers

Cooper, Sarah

doi:10.3366/film.2007.0011

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The Dardenne Brothers and the Invisible Ethical Drama: Faith without Faith

Caruana¹

2023

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The cinema of the Dardenne brothers represents a new kind of cinema, one that challenges a number of our conventional ways of thinking about the distinction between religion and secularism, belief and unbelief. Their films explore the intricacies of spiritual and ethical transformations as they are experienced within embodied, material life. These features of their cinema will be examined primarily through the lens of Emmanuel Levinas’s philosophy of the imbrication of the drama of existence and the ethical intrigue of self and Other. The work of the Dardenne brothers can be understood as an attempt to express what I describe as a “faith without faith”—a recognition of the absolute centrality of belief for the development of a responsible subject but in the absence of a traditional faith in a personal deity.

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The Dardenne Brothers and the Invisible Ethical Drama: Faith without Faith

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“…And, so, while I leave open the real possibility that Jean-Pierre may not always concur with his brother, Luc, on some of the details discussed here, I will, nevertheless, for the sake of my exposition, assume that their views coincide. 6 See, in particular, Sarah Cooper [7] and Philip Mosley [8]. 7 I develop this notion of the dramatic dimension of Levinas's philosophy in greater detail in "The Drama of Being: Levinas and the History of Philosophy."…”

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“…6 See, in particular, Sarah Cooper [7] and Philip Mosley [8]. 7 I develop this notion of the dramatic dimension of Levinas's philosophy in greater detail in "The Drama of Being: Levinas and the History of Philosophy." [9].…”

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The Dardenne Brothers and the Invisible Ethical Drama: Faith without Faith

Caruana

2016

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Abstract:The cinema of the Dardenne brothers represents a new kind of cinema, one that challenges a number of our conventional ways of thinking about the distinction between religion and secularism, belief and unbelief. Their films explore the intricacies of spiritual and ethical transformations as they are experienced within embodied, material life. These features of their cinema will be examined primarily through the lens of Emmanuel Levinas's philosophy of the imbrication of the drama of existence and the ethical intrigue of self and Other. The work of the Dardenne brothers can be understood as an attempt to express what I describe as a "faith without faith"-a recognition of the absolute centrality of belief for the development of a responsible subject but in the absence of a traditional faith in a personal deity.

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“…If their films have been interpreted from a moral or ethical standpoint (Cooper 2007;Zarader 2008;Mélon 2010), it is precisely because of the vacuity and emptiness of the post-industrial city. If the viewer constantly asks, 'What is going to happen next?…”

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