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Lorna's Silence (2009)
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A-Details Limited Release: Jul 31, 2009; Rated: R; Length: 105 Minutes; Genre: Drama; With: Arta Dobroshi and Jeremie Renier
From the outstanding Belgian filmmakers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne (Rosetta), here's another closely observed, sociologically astute, and amazingly naturalistic drama about moral compromise as a by-product of economic need. Lorna, an Albanian woman living in Belgium (played by the captivating Arta Dobroshi), sets out to achieve her capitalist dream of opening a snack bar with her Albanian boyfriend by letting a mobster broker a sham marriage to a local junkie (Jérémie Renier) for Belgian citizenship. As she ditches him to wed a Russian thug willing to pay big for his own legal entrée, Lorna's Silence becomes a stunning study of one desperate woman's conscience. A–
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