ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the world in front of the Dardennes' films and considers their wider theo-ethical themes; that is, how the brothers' cinematic parables may evoke a theological and ethical response within an audience, moving from interpreting cinema into how the film-world interprets and affects audiences' life-world. Through pairings of the Dardennes' six remaining films, the chapter unpacks the following three ethical themes: (1) the meaning of work in Rosetta and Two Days, One Night; (2) practicing hospitality toward marginalized strangers in Lorna's Silence and The Unknown Girl; and (3) the spiritual and moral formation of youth in The Promise and The Child. The chapter provides evidence for demonstrating how the Dardennes' films may affect and transform viewers' moral imaginations and social practices.
