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Life's hard for the characters who populate the bleak landscape of writer-directors Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne's Lorna's Silence; for the most part, their existences are a dreary, quotidian struggle merely to survive. Lorna herself is a young Albanian who has paid a man in Liege, Belgium to marry her so she can obtain that country's citizenship. Her husband, Claudy, is a pathetic, sniveling junkie whom she locks out of the bedroom at night. Then it gets worse. Fabio, the lowlife cab driver-criminal who arranged the marriage, wants to get rid of Claudy, so Lorna can then marry a Russian mobster who wants to be a Belgian
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Life's hard for the characters who populate the bleak landscape of writer-directors Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne's Lorna's Silence; for the most part, their existences are a dreary, quotidian struggle merely to survive. Lorna herself is a young Albanian who has paid a man in Liege, Belgium to marry her so she can obtain that country's citizenship. Her husband, Claudy, is a pathetic, sniveling junkie whom she locks out of the bedroom at night. Then it gets worse. Fabio, the lowlife cab driver-criminal who arranged the marriage, wants to get rid of Claudy, so Lorna can then marry a Russian mobster who wants to be a Belgian as well. Yet as repellent as Claudy may be, Lorna can't help but feel compassion, and sometimes even passion, for him; at the very least, she'd rather divorce him than go along with Fabio's plan, which involves an "accidental" overdose. But while Lorna has a head on her shoulders (she's no pushover) and a dream in her heart (she and her Albanian boyfriend, Sokol, want to make enough money to open a snack bar in Liege), she's not exactly skilled at making smart decisions, which leads to a denouement that will be no one's idea of uplifting. There's precious little beauty in the Dardenne brothers' world, a world in which everything's for sale and everyone's a mercenary--even the look of the film is largely stark and muted. But the story is gripping, and the acting, particularly by Arta Dobrishi as Lorna and Jeremie Renier as Claudy, is excellent (the fact that they're unknowns, at least to most American viewers, helps make them believable). Lorna's Silence is not a barrel of laughs, but this is a compelling movie by two filmmakers already acclaimed for earlier titles like L'Enfant and Rosetta. --Sam Graham
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Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Release date: 5 January 2010
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0043396324114 UPC: 043396324114
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