Il matrimonio di Lorna

In an Industrial Belgian City, an Immigrant’s Brutal Dilemma

“Lorna’s Silence” is the new film written and directed by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Belgian brothers whose highly recognizable, frequently imitated style has won them recognition nearly everywhere in the world. A predictable but unfortunate exception is the United States, where the audience for challenging movies from other countries seems to shrink by the month. Mention of the Dardennes, which elsewhere might elicit a nod of the head, is here more likely to be met with furrowed brows.
But their fictional features, fixtures of the Cannes Film Festival (where two, “Rosetta” and “The Child,” have won the top prize, in 1999 and 2005), are similar enough in method and mood that “Lorna’s Silence” is as good a place as any to make or renew their acquaintance. [...]

di A. O. Scott, articolo completo (5791 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 31 Luglio 2009