Rosetta
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A powerfully affecting, uncompromising portrait of the day-to-day struggles of a Belgian teenager living in a trailer park with her alcoholic mother, Rosetta is the Dardenne brothers most celebrated work to date. Lonely, hungry and in constant fear, Rosetta played in gut-wrenching form by Émilie Dequenne leads a hand-to-mouth existence of hardship and pain. But through the strife comes a deep-rooted portrait of bravery and determination, encapsulating as it does the very essence of what it is to be human. This is bold, intelligent filmmaking at its finest.
Starring Émilie Dequenne, Fabrizio Rongione, Olivier Gourmet
Director Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne