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Young, effervescent and full of life, Murielle (Emilie Dequenne, Rosetta) has a promising future ahead of her when she meets and falls head over heels for Mounir (Tahar Rahim, A Prophet). A wedding soon follows, and the happy couple quickly set about preparing to make a family. However, with family come ties, and none come as tight as that between Mounir and his adoptive father (Niels Arestrup, A Prophet, Sarah’s Key). As Murielle continues to bring new life into the family, in the form of four children, frictions between Mounir and Doctor Pinget reach boiling point. Helpless to extract her husband and children from the wealthy nest that Doctor Pinget has provided for them, Murielle is drawn into an unhealthy family dynamic. Within this oppressive environment, Murielle becomes trapped and all sense of reasoning begins to abandon her.
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Our Children was Belgium's official entry for the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 85th Academy Awards in 2013.
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Director's Statement
A few years ago I heard about this news story on the radio about a woman who had killed her own children, and I was rather frightened by the way the media created a monster out of this woman. I talked about it with my wife, with friends, and everybody said it was impossible to imagine – it’s unthinkable. That’s when I saw my co-writers and thought maybe we could do a script that would make it a bit more imaginable, more thinkable.
We weren’t trying to tell the truth about this actual news story or even give it justice through cinema. Cinema is never truth or reality, it’s always an invention, a construction. But what fascinated us was that it was a great tragedy. Like all great tragedies it starts with a passionate love story, and very quickly the way to hell is paved with good intentions. That’s the aspect I was interested in.
