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Rosetta
1999
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 |
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| 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 | |
| Genres | World Cinema |
| Language | DVD: French |
| Dubbed | Italian |
| Released | DVD: 16 Apr 2001 Production year: 1999 |
| Format | DVD |
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Critics' reviews (2)
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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.
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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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32 out of 41 people found this review helpful
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.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Grim and stark
If you have seen The Son, things will seem very familiar here in terms of setting, theme, dialogue and camera work. I would say this has more to offer then The Son, although the setting is much bleaker and the situation much grimmer. The Rosetta character is played well and the desparation of her situation comes through, however, like the The Son I found it a bit of a chore to watch regardless of its social realism angle. If alcoholic mothers, damp caravan parks and a dank backdrop to it all are your thing, then get this out.
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