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30 | Isabella Guanzini www.jrfm.eu 2016, 2/2, 15–32 sense, both Arendt and the Dardennes suggest the necessity of plurality and proximity, not in order to reconcile the irreconcilable, but to fight against the loss of belief and trust in human beings. They both fight “against that falsely lucid thought according to which all human efforts and all human action are useless”.47 If it is true, as Deleuze argues, that “restoring our belief in the world” should be the “power of modern cinema”,48 the Dardennes seem to correspond with this anthropological, ontological and even religious purpose. One could refer for example to Moses, who wanted to see the glory of the Father, but could only grasp His passage: “And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen” (Exod. 33:21–23). In the cinema of the Dardennes, the fathers are often encountered from the back as well, in all their corporeality, efforts, ambiguity and exposure. The back seems to represent here what remains of the father today, before he passes away again. BIBLIOGRAPHY Agamben, Giorgio, 1993, Infancy and History. The Destruction of Experience, London/New York: Verso. Arendt, Hannah, 1998 [1958], The Human Condition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Benjamin, Walter, 1991, Gesammelte Schriften, vol. I,2: Über den Begriff der Geschichte, Frankfurt am M.: Suhrkamp. Dardenne, Luc, 2009, Dietro ai nostri occhi. Un diario, Milan: Isbn edizioni. Deleuze, Gilles, 1978, On Spinoza, in: Lectures by Gilles Deleuze. http://deleuzelectures.blogspot. it/2007/02/on-spinoza.html [accessed 22 March 2016]. Deleuze, Gilles, 1990, Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza, New York: Zone Books. Deleuze, Gilles, 1993, The Fold. Leibniz and the Baroque, London: Athlone Press. Deleuze, Gilles, 1997 [1989], Cinema 2. The Time-image, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2nd edition. Freud, Sigmund, 1990, Totem and Taboo: Resemblances between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics, New York: W. W. Norton. Hardt, Michael/Negri, Antonio, 2004, Multitude. War and Democracy in the Age of Empire, New York: Penguin. Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1977 [1807], The Phenomenology of Spirit, New York/Oxford: Ox- ford University Press. Lacan, Jacques, 1938, La famille, in: Encyclopédie française, vol. VIII, Paris: Larousse, 40.3–16, 42.1–8. Lacan, Jacques, 1978, On Psychoanalytic Discourse. http://web.missouri.edu/~stonej/Milan_Dis- course2.pdf [accessed 22 March 2016]. Lacan, Jacques, 1999, Seminar IV. La relation d’objet, Paris: Seuil. Mai, Joseph, 2010, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 47 Dardenne 2009, 28. 48 Deleuze 1997, 172.