Now it can be told: At the 2008 Cannes film festival, I spent a very pleasant afternoon at the Unifrance pavillion with Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, who’d just premiered their new film “Le Silence de Lorna”.

About a year after the movie came to TIFF, it’s finally getting a commercial run, so I get to run the interview in today’s NOW — a nice little flashback to what seems like calmer times, in the middle of the frenzied rush to TIFF ’09.

Speaking of which …