Rosetta

WINNER PALME D'OR – BEST FILM – CANNES FILM FESTIVAL

In the Dardenne brothers' multi-award-winning film (including the Palme D'Or and the Best Actress award at Cannes), we meet teenager Rosetta (Émilie Dequenne). She is looking for a job and a way out of the dead-end of life with an alcoholic mother in a seedy trailer park. But her social legacy and unfortunate circumstances push her ever closer to a last desperate measure.

“The film has a strange hidden power. It doesn’t try to be popular or make an effort to portray Rosetta as colorful, charming, or likable. It’s a film based on economic determinism, the story of a young woman whose happiness lies in getting a job. At least, she believes so until she gets a job and is no happier, perhaps simply because she’s never learned what that means.” – Roger Ebert

“It appears more touching, challenging and exceptional every time I see it.”
-Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

“The strongest cinematic experience of the past year, Hollywood explosions and effects spectacle included.” – Jonathan Rosenbaum, The Chicago Reader