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5.0 out of 5 stars
Breathtaking, May 10, 2006
This review is from: Rosetta [Region 2 Import - Non USA Format] (DVD)
one of the most amazing films to ever be made. Rosetta is the compelling and moving story of a young girl that faces hardships beyond her years. Loss of a job, dealing with her alcholic mother and the center of all of this desperation, to have a good life, and get things going in the right direction, she betrays a friend, begs for jobs and sneaks in and out of the trailer park she and her mother live in, ironically called "the grand canyon".
Rosetta has an iron clad determination that drives her, and she will not give up no matter what.
An extremely real, gritty, emotional and touching film that won numerous awards for the actress playing rosetta(?milie Dequenne) as well as for Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne at the cannes film festival.
An absolute treasure.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Under Bresson's effluvium !, October 15, 2007
Rosetta was winner of the Palme d' Or at Cannes, and enthusiastically acclaimed around the world.
The film breathes that existential sense of despair and hopeless, mirroring the merciless portrait of a young girl trying to survive a life of poverty. Her stomach cramps (The cure in "Dairy of a country priest") , alcoholic mother (In Mouchette was her father) . But the basic and most important aspect worthy to underline is the lack of sentimentalism; that's why keeps and really exudes a dignity and artistic conviction that really engages the spectator.
The promising actress Emile Dequenne won a well deserved prize as Best actress in Cannes festival.
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