Lorna's Silence
Lorna's Silence
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After Rosetta and L’Enfant, the Dardenne brothers continued to craft naturalistic dramas about struggling urban souls with The Silence of Lorna. In the title role, Arta Dobroshi plays a young Albanian immigrant in Belgium. Her exploitative involvement with three native ne’er-do-wells (Jeremie Renier, Fabrizio Rongione, and Alban Ukaj) means she has a good chance of marrying into citizenship and stability, but at what cost? Cinematographer Alain Marcoen forgoes the gritty verite aesthetics of his past Dardenne work in favor of subdued, precise lensing. Winner of Best Screenplay at Cannes. In French and Albanian with optional English subtitles.

Jean-Pierre Dardenne/Luc Dardenne---Belgium---2008---100 mins.

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  | JohnH#1

This is the second of the Dardenne brothers' studies of the seamy underside of life in the Belgian rust belt that I have seen. The other was the L'Enfant. Both films were grim, but redeemed by characters whose residiual decency kicks when the chips are down. The Dardennes leave it up to the viewer to decide where the better nature comes from. It might be external, it might be internal. Both films left me feeling that no matter how bad things seem to be, there is hope for mankind.

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