LORNA'S SILENCE — CANNES 2008

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Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne craft an evocative story about Lorna, a young Albanian woman (played flawlessly in the 2008 Cannes festival’s most impressive break-out performance by Kosovo-born Arta Dobroshi) in cahoots with Fabio, a Belgian mobster, to make money so she can open a snack bar with her boyfriend.

Lorna suffers through a fraud marriage to Claudy (well played by Jeremie Renier), a loser junkie that Fabio plans to kill in order to put Lorna in another sham marriage, this time to a rich Russian.

If the plot sounds convoluted, it doesn’t impede an inevitable flood of surprising physical and emotional responses from the poker-faced Lorna. This is one powerful film that stays with you.

Rated R. 95 mins.