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1999 Certificate 15
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Young and impulsive Rosetta, lives with her alcoholic mother, and moved by despair she will do anything to maintain a job. Read more

Starring Emilie Dequenne, Fabrizio Rongione, Anne Yerneaux, Olivier Gourmet
Director Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Genres World Cinema

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Rosetta

Young and impulsive Rosetta, lives with her alcoholic mother, and moved by despair she will do anything to maintain a job.

Starring Emilie Dequenne, Fabrizio Rongione, Anne Yerneaux, Olivier Gourmet
Director Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Studio ARTIFICIAL EYE FILM COMPANY LTD.
Certificate Certificate 15
Genres World Cinema
Language DVD: French
Dubbed Italian
Released DVD: 16 Apr 2001
Production year: 1999
Format DVD

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  • 3 stars out of 5

    Inspired by Kafka and booed on winning the Palme d'Or at Cannes, Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne's starkly realistic insight into life on the lowest rung undoubtedly makes for difficult viewing. However, as the debuting Emilie Dequenne clings to the soul-destroying routine she hopes will land the job she needs for self-esteem as much as pay, the film begins to grip in much the same way as Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman. Spurning both the optimism of American “trailer trash” pictures and the politicking of British social realism, this gruelling film makes no commercial concessions and is all the better for it.

    • Radio Times
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006

  • A deserving Palme d'Or winner at Cannes '99, Rosetta is in the same, grim realist mould as the Dardennes' earlier La... read more on Time Out

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    • Posted 04 Nov 2008

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  • 32 out of 41 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    Masterpiece of Cinematic Humanism

    This is an amazing film. For those who are willing to think and feel it will provide you with a profoundly moving portrait of a fellow human being. Everything about Rosetta confirms its greatness; the cinematography is perfect for the project, script is solid, the acting excels, Direction and editing are just right. If you are incapable of wanting to feel, and prefer your entertainment of the anaesthetic variety (commercial rubbish), want to be told what to think (dramatic ends where all the plot wraps up neatly), and are only willing to feel emotion when a Hollywood Director manipulates your tear glands for you without you thinking, then steer clear. But if you believe Cinema is Art, and all art should describe the human condition, then Rosetta is a masterpiece.

      • A customer from London
      • Posted 14 Apr 2005 10:27

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  • 9 out of 13 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 2 stars

    So you think you're having a bad day?

    Spare a thought or Rosetta a feisty independent young woman who is trying desperately to make ends meet while keeping her mother off the booze and from turning tricks in the trailer park in which they live.

    Set in a dull, grey Belgian town, which only adds to the unrelenting misery, Rosetta will consider nearly anything in order to secure a job to get her and her mother out of the rut in which they find themselves. She is in fact quite a despicable character who you wouldn't want as a friend, let alone an enemy!

    Acting aside, which is superb from Dequenne, this film will bring you down, whatever mood you are in. It should come with a warning!

    Also, this film leaves more questions than answers, in itself no bad thing, though in this film it is irritating and you are left why wandering why you bothered with the film as you are no more edified at the end of the film than you were when it started!

    Sorry, this film does itself no favours!

      • Jan from London
      • Posted 06 Apr 2004 22:35

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