Written & Directed By: Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne
Cinematography: Alain Marcoen
Editor: Marie-Helene Dozo
Cast: Arta Dobroshi, Jeremie Renier, Fabrizio Rongione, Alban Ukaj, Morgan Marinne, Olivier Gourmet, Anton Yakovlev, Gregori Manoukov
Lorna, a young Albanian woman living in Belgium, has her sights set on opening a snack bar with her lover Sokol. In order to do so, she has become involved in a scam conducted by Fabio, a gangster.
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A good old fashioned film noir. it’s from explorers the fringe of a criminal underground and has the groundwork of a film noir that plays dark and realistic.
Then, when you think something positive is going to happen in the film, it reveals itself only to sing deeper into the darkness.
Here the femme fatale is the anti-hero of the film. She’s trying to do what she needs to do but isn’t as coldhearted as she would have everyone believe.
She is caught in a situation that should be easy for her to handle which morphs into a no-win one.
What makes this film feel different is that for all the traditional roles the characters play like the mole the mark the femme fatale the mobster the film doesn’t treat or show them as cliché or clueless. It makes them full three-dimensional characters
Wish I could say the film is a Home-run, but it’s not that it isn’t worth watching and the first film by the Dardenne brothers That Is really enjoyable in quite some time. As one haven’t really like any of their films that much since ROSETTA.
Though this one lends itself more to genre then their other films and seems a bit more cruel. then their usual humanist films.
Grade: B
