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YOUNG AHMED
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This powerful film from the Dardenne brothers, about a Muslim boy living in a small Belgian town who is attracted to dangerous ideologies.
Young Ahmed returns the Dardenne brothers to a keynote theme, expressed in movies such as The Child and The Son: the vulnerability of young people in trouble with the law - and also, paradoxically, their strength, their determination to survive. Theirs is a naive force derived from not caring or understanding how much they have to lose, or indeed how vulnerable are the adult figures placed in authority over them. This is a powerful movie on a contemporary issue with one very suspenseful "prison" scene - potentially suspenseful at any rate.
Another, more vulgarly commercial film-maker might have positioned this scene climactically later in the story and exploited its tension more brazenly; a more ruthless director in the Haneke mould might have done the same thing, but simply to produce a violent, pessimistic shock out of nowhere. The Dardennes are doing something different from any of this, although they once again show their tendency to solve third-act narrative problems with a melodramatic and almost farcical flourish - a chase across open country is not uncommon - and the ending here is not entirely satisfying...
By Peter Bradshaw The Guardian
READ MORE: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/may/20/young-ahmed-review-dardenne-brothers
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