Rosetta (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, 1999): BFI Southbank, NFT3, 8.50pm
This 35mm presentation is part of the Big Screen Classics strand at BFI Southbank. You can find all the details via this link here.
Time Out review:
A deserving Palme d'Or winner at Cannes '99, Rosetta is in the same, grim realist mould as the Dardennes' earlier La Promesse;
it, too, offers a glimmer of hope through the prospect of friendship.
Teenage Rosetta (Emilie Dequenne) has it tough: living in a trailer park
with her promiscuous, alcoholic mother, she tries to hang on to
whatever mundane jobs she can get, but for all her determination and
hard work, bad luck and her surly, volatile disposition repeatedly tell
against her. Is life really worth living? Using very little dialogue and
long, hand-held tracking shots (the relentlessly restless visuals
perfectly reflect Rosetta's unsettled life, the secret to which is
provided only halfway through the movie - and even then, subtly), the
Dardennes never sentimentalise their heroine but respect the mysteries
of her soul; the result is a film almost Bressonian in its rigour and
power to touch the heart.
Geoff Andrew
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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