A Terrible Secret
Today, though, he’s most excited to be talking about the brothers’ new work, “The Son,” the third in a loose trilogy of social-realist films that take place in the economically depressed mining town of Seraing, where the brothers grew up, 10 minutes outside Liege. It’s the story of Olivier, a lonely, reticent man with thick glasses (played by the talented but emphatically unglamorous Olivier Gourmet), who teaches carpentry to troubled teens in a reform school....