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Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne craft an evocative story about Lorna, a young Albanian woman (played flawlessly by Kosovo-born Arta Dobroshi).
Lorna is in cahoots with Fabio, a Belgian mobster, to make money so she can open a snack bar with her shady boyfriend.
Lorna suffers through a fraud marriage to Claudy (well played by Jeremie Renier), a junkie whoFabio plans to kill in order to put Lorna into 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, who is in over her head.
“Lorna’s Silence” was one of the strongest films in competition at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival where it deservedly won the Palme d’Or.
Rated R. 105 mins.
