Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne are two of the most well respected and awarded European filmmakers over the past 20 years. One reviewer claims their films "grapple with a society that has lost touch with its moral underpinnings … [especially] how today's youth navigate this world without role models and moral direction." As Luc Dardenne once said, "We put [young adults] in a situation and ask the question: How are these people, who are now alone and without help from the past, going to find their way to be fully human?"

For instance, their film L'enfant (The Child) focuses on two young parents and their newborn son, Jimmy. Sadly, Jimmy is born into a moral vacuum. His mother, Sonia, spends most of her time walking the streets with her drifter boyfriend Bruno, who has no idea how to be a father. It's hard to tell who is "L'enfant,"—is it Jimmy or his mother and father?

It's a beautiful and heartbreaking film, but Luc Dardenne claims that it has a powerful and prophetic message. "When you go back in time," he said, "[the film] is the story of the father and mother; and the future is the story of our children and their children. The day that we are unable to be fathers and mothers, then humanity is finished."