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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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- 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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- - Time Out
  - 04 Nov 2008 at 00:16
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  - 10
  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 ... read more »
  
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  - London
  - 14 Apr 2005 at 10:27
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- - 0
  - 0
  Don't wait for an ending.
  
  I think this is a really good movie but the style / technique of how to build a story to the end is a bit dated and feels a bit old. It's okay, and well ... read more »
  
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- - Onlyests
  - 47 reviews
  - 20 Jan 2012 at 21:16
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  Very disappointing
  
  I was expecting a French 'Ken Loach' sort of movie, which is how this film's been reviewed since it first came out. It isn't at all. The ... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - england
  - 05 Aug 2011 at 22:31
- - 2
  - 1
  Bleak Belgique
  
  OK. An unemployed teenage girl lives with her whoring, alcoholic mother in a caravan in a bleak provincial town in Belgium. Grim enough for you yet ? Her whole ... read more »
  
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- - MinkyNinky
  - 52 reviews
  - Matlock, Derbyshire, UK
  - 09 Jan 2011 at 20:58
- - 2
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  A french tale of survival
  
  A gritty french film based on the struggle for survival of Rosetta, the plucky daughter of an alcoholic living on a trailor park. As the drama unfolds one is ... read more »
  
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- - Drwatson
  - 17 reviews
  - Skegness
  - 09 Oct 2010 at 22:49
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  Bleakly brilliant
  
  Yet again these remarkable artist brothers have crafted a seemingly simple plot with complex rounded and superbly acted characters you almost believe are real. ... read more »
  
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- - Leosteve
  - 5 reviews
  - Enfield
  - 11 Mar 2009 at 23:10
- - 1
  - 0
  Rosetta - an independent masterpiece
  
  The Dardenne brothers deliver an adrenaline shot of reality in this subtle, yet masterful piece of work. The plot, if you can call it that, follows the troubled... read more »
  
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- - Chewbacca
  - 14 reviews
  - Cambridge
  - 14 Feb 2009 at 14:17
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  - 0
  rosetta
  
  Excellent...highly recommend. Non-sentimental tale of young woman struggling to survive...
  
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- - gardens
  - 24 reviews
  - Bath
  - 10 Feb 2009 at 16:20
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  bleak but important film
  
  Rosetta the story of a teenager living in a caravanpark with an alcoholic mother who sells herself to the park manager for alcohol isnt the film you would seek ... read more »
  
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- - MUNCH
  - 136 reviews
  - Gorebridge
  - 22 Aug 2008 at 11:24
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  bleak, real, Great
  
  I usually hate anything arty and pretentious french tripe.. the French seem to do it with such expertise is all.
  
  this is a little of both it seems, ... read more »
  
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- - Mrtbuzzed
  - 16 reviews
  - Pontefract
  - 20 Aug 2008 at 21:48
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  miserable !
  
  This was miserable ! We couln't watch all the way through
  
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- - gail44
  - 1 review
  - bedford
  - 07 Jul 2008 at 15:25
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- - 41
  - 10
  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 ... read more »
  
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- 92331
- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - a customer
  - London
  - 14 Apr 2005 at 10:27
- - 13
  - 1
  Less Waffle = More Bite
  
  The story is painfully simple - teenage Rosetta wants a job - a splint to bind her life together, as she struggles to keep her alcoholic mum from trading sexual... read more »
  
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- - AnotherNightIn
  - Merseyside
  - 26 Sep 2004 at 09:10
- - 10
  - 3
  Realism is not necessarily entertaining
  
  How many times can you watch a teenage girl pull on a pair of wellies?
  
  How about 10 times?
  
  I have no doubt that this is realistic and no ... read more »
  
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- - pesquera
  - inverness
  - 23 Jun 2004 at 00:49
- - 9
  - 4
  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 ... read more »
  
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- - Jan
  - London
  - 06 Apr 2004 at 22:35
- - 4
  - 0
  well worth watching
  
  This is a refreshing, honest slice of life that left me wanting more.
  
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- - a customer
  - Surrey
  - 14 Sep 2005 at 22:25
- - 4
  - 0
  Powerfully Grim
  
  A powerful film about a harsh subject, poverty. The Dardenne brothers have crafted this piece de resistance in the form of a docudrama about a teenage girl ... read more »
  
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- - Cato
  - 554 reviews
  - Lydbury North
  - 04 Mar 2008 at 18:55
- - 4
  - 1
  rather dull
  
  i quite often enjoy these 'slice of life' films but i have to say this never really went anywhere and was ultimately disappointing. gritty, which can be... read more »
  
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- - leon blank
  - rainy Wales
  - 29 Apr 2005 at 12:56
- - 3
  - 0
  Grim
  
  Grim picture of the life of a poor very ordinary young Belgian woman. Not a lot of fun features in her struggle to get a job and cope with an alcoholic mum. ... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - Norfolk
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 21:58
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  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 ... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - London, England
  - 13 Mar 2007 at 11:34
- - 2
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  A french tale of survival
  
  A gritty french film based on the struggle for survival of Rosetta, the plucky daughter of an alcoholic living on a trailor park. As the drama unfolds one is ... read more »
  
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- 930328
- - Drwatson
  - 17 reviews
  - Skegness
  - 09 Oct 2010 at 22:49

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