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Lorna's Silence

2008, Movie, 1h 45min

Lorna is a young Albanian woman in a marriage of convenience with Claudy, a heroin addict. Just as Lorna is about to be granted Belgian citizenship, Claudy finds the strength to detox; this presents a problem not only for Lorna, but for the criminal who brokered the deal.

Country: Italy,Belgium,France,Germany

Directors:

Jean-Pierre Dardenne,

Cast:

Reviews

Critic David Parkinson

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...Dobroshi sustains a mix of naive ambition, reluctant complicity and flinty pragmatism as authentic as the soul-destroying Liège settings.

Read full review at Empire

Critic Sam Adams

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The preference for material detail over psychology leaves the audience to fill in the blanks, and that strategy acts like a slow-burning fuse...

Read full review at The A.V. Club

Critic Marjorie Baumgarten

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The latest film from the Belgian Dardenne brothers keeps with their award-winning and highly recognizable realist style of storytelling.

Read full review at The Austin Chronicle

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Lorna, a young Albanian woman living in Belgium, dreams of owning a snack bar with her boyfriend. To raise the necessary funds, she agrees to a sham marriage with a Russian man, but things take a dark turn when her husband's addiction recovery threatens the plan. Fabio, the criminal mastermind behind the scheme, pressures Lorna to kill her husband via an overdose. Moved by her husband's determination to stay clean, Lorna pleads with Fabio to hold off, but he refuses. In a desperate attempt to save her husband's life, Lorna fakes an abuse scenario and secures a divorce. However, her actions have dire consequences, and she soon finds herself entangled in a web of deceit, violence, and betrayal. Will Lorna's silence be her ultimate weapon, or will it seal her fate?

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