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Lorna's Silence

2008 · 105 min

A quietly gripping, morally fraught descent into a woman's impossible choices, told with unflinching realism and mounting dread.

Tagline: The destiny of a woman caught between love and the laws of the underworld.
Overview: 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.

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Tone: bleakstrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: guilt
survival
isolation
morality
immigration
Places: big city
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Action	2
Horror	1
Humour	1
Realism	9
Romance	2
Tension	7
Darkness	8
Complexity	6
Emotional weight	8

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Genres: crime, drama
Directed by: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Written by: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Starring: Arta Dobroshi, Jérémie Renier, Fabrizio Rongione, Alban Ukaj, Morgan Marinne, Anton Yakovlev, Olivier Gourmet, Grigori Manoukov
Cinematography: Alain Marcoen
Runtime: 105 min
Country: Belgium, Germany, France, Italy
Languages: German, French

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