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Lorna's Silence

Le silence de Lorna

2008

Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne

Arta Dobroshi, Jérémie Rénier, Olivier Gourmet, Fabrizio Rongione ...

6.5

2,263

Drama In order to become the owner of a snack bar with her boyfriend, Lorna, a young Albanian woman living in Belgium becomes an accomplice to a diabolical plan devised by mobster Fabio. Fabio has orchestrated a sham marriage between her and Claudy. The marriage allows her to obtain Belgian citizenship and then marry a Russian Mafioso willing to pay a lot of money to acquire the same quickly. However, for this second marriage to be possible, ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"'Lorna’s Silence' is engrossing and powerful, which may be just another way of saying it’s a film by the Dardenne brothers."	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"The gift of Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne is to show their characters as trapped in personal human situations; they’re not creatures of a plot (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Justin Chang Variety	"The film doesn’t pack the same cumulative wallop as the brothers’ earlier work, but its low-key artistry, immaculate construction and fine performance by relative newcomer Arta Dobroshi should rouse the usual fest acclaim"	POS
United States	Sam Adams AV Club	"'Lorna’s Silence' feels like a refinement, even a repetition, of earlier themes. But the brothers are repeating themselves at such a high level that the redundancies are more than welcome."	POS
United States	J.R. Jones Chicago Reader	"There’s more narrative contrivance here than in most of the brothers’ films, but like their earlier accomplishments, this one offers a damning critique of global capitalism"	NEU
United States	Sam C. Mac The Playlist	"The film’s structure mirrors Lorna’s confused mental state (...) It’s a daring marriage of form and content, and though it’s certainly not the first film to attempt something like this, it’s easily one of the most successful to do so"	POS
United States	Mick LaSalle SFGATE	"It leaves the audience with neither a sense of uplift nor devastation, but, rather, with something more akin to intellectual appreciation."	POS

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