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The Unknown Girl

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The Unknown Girl

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Drama starring Adèle Haenel. Young doctor Jenny Davin has just started her dream job. However, one night after hours, she refuses to admit a patient who desperately wants to be seen. The next morning, the body of a young woman is found dead nearby and spurs the devastated Jenny into investigating the deceased's identity.

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A star rating of 3 out of 5.

David Parkinson

In their early features, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne eschewed dramatic contrivance to present stark neorealist snapshots of life in the run-down Seraing region of Liége. But story has increasingly taken over from observation and this account of a doctor trying to salve her conscience after an understandable professional misjudgement often feels conventionally melodramatic. Appalled by the murder of the undocumented African migrant she refuses to see after hours, Adèle Haenel alienates intern Olivier Bonnaud and irritates cop Ben Hamidou by quizzing her patients to find clues to the dead woman's identity. Such is Haenel's crisis of conscience that she proves as "unknown" as the prostitute she failed to help. Her studied performance is as assured as the imagery, the depiction of the community and the exploration of the extent to which a single careless act can have such drastic ramifications. But, while the Dardennes cast a noir-like pall over events, the procedural aspect lacks nuance and the dénouement raises some disconcerting questions about Haenel's cosy redemption.

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Cast

rolenameJenny DavinAdèle HaenelJulienOlivier BonnaudBryan's fatherJérémie RenierBryanLouka MinnellaBryan's motherChristelle CornilDoctor HabranYves LarecInspector Ben MahmoudBen HamidouInspector BercaroLaurent Caron

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rolenameDirectorJean-Pierre DardenneDirectorLuc Dardenne

Details

Theatrical distributor

Curzon Artificial Eye

Released on

2016-12-02

Languages

French

Guidance

sex references

Available on

DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Colour

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