The Unknown Girl Reviews

Even though this movie didn’t get much love when it was released, since I’m a huge fan of the Dardenne Brothers’s work, I was really eager to check it out. Well, at first, I was actually positively surprised by the damned thing. Indeed,  it was a really neat mix between a standard thriller and the typical sober and hyper-realistic directing style of the Dardenne Brothers. On top of that, the brothers once again discovered another promising actress and Adèle Haenel gave here a really strong performance. So, for a while, I thought it could turn out to be a really nice surprise but, unfortunately, the end-result still didn’t really convince me. The first thing that bothered me was the fact that the main character didn’t go to the police at some point after gathering so much information. However, the ending turned out to be a bigger problem though. Indeed, even though nobody would talk to the main character which made sense, at some point, out of nowhere, everybody would start to confess everything to her which was rather weak in my opinion. Basically, like any other average mystery thriller, the Dardennes brother didn’t really manage to give this story an interesting conclusion which was too bad. Anyway, to conclude, in spite of its strong potential, it turned out to be rather disappointing but I still think it is worth a look, especially if you like the genre.