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Rosetta | Directed: - Jean-Pierre Dardenne - Luc Dardenne Amazing Warning: Please eat at least 2 hours prior watching this film. If you can't stand the handheld camera in THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, then don't even bother watching this film. Believe me, you'll get sick. The great thing about ROSETTA is the fact that the Dardene brothers chose not to make her character sympathethic. All she wants is a normal life, which consist of finding a job. And she will do anything to get it. The film literally follows her as she walks around the city, looking for employment. The ending is shocking, but reminds me of Francois Truffaut's The 400 Blows. Emilie Dequenne gave a brilliant performance in a realist film that plays like it's coming from the French New Wave. Overall, this film is worth watching. It deserves to win the Palme D'Or, although most people disagree (they chose the entertaining but thin ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER instead). Watch this film, and you'll never forget it. You probably won't like it, but it's worth watching, because there's rarely a minimalist film like this. Wanted: A Normal Life Rosetta deservedly was a co-winner of the Palm d'Or at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival and was one of the best movies of the year. Like most European movies, the film does not have a plot or conventional story line. It instead focuses on the desperate attempts of the lead character, the seventeen-year-old Rosetta, to escape poverty and find a normal life. Emilie Dequenne stars and delivers a performance that would be remarkable for an actress of any age, but that is especially astonishing for someone so young who presumably doesn't have the life experience to show such depth. Yet Dequenne convincingly conveys Rosetta's absolute pain and despair. It is easy to empathize with Rosetta and to feel her pain, even when she makes a choice that hurts someone who has only tried to help her. Much of the movie's strength also comes from the camera work. The filmmakers made heavy use of hand-held cameras tightly and almost exclusively focused on Rosetta, creating an incredibly personal effect that enables the viewer to feel what she feels. Although not a light movie or easy to watch, Rosetta is a truly memorable and rewarding film that has a profound impact. Naturalism instead of realism... I beg to disagree with the reviewer who wrote that ROSETTA deserved the Palme D'Or, instead of ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER. All About My Mother--thin? Rather, I would call this film "thin."<BR>All About My Mother is an excellent film. Mayb to that they will also say that they found the film upsetting. > Buy Rosetta at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.com Jamster - the latest ringtones for your phone!  Search with Walhello on the Internet on Rosetta Search with the Priority Search Engine on Rosetta This page in other languages: Suomeksi | Nederlands | Deutsch
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