Cannes continues on and yesterday saw the premiere the latest by the Dardenne Brothers, Lorna’s Silence. The brothers (to the right) from Belgium are best known for their realist and disorientating visions of working people:

Palme d’Or laureates for Rosetta in 1999 and L’Enfant (The Child) in 2005, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne return to Festival Competition with Lorna’s Silence. The filmmaking brothers have also served as Presidents of the Cinéfondation and Short Films Juries (in 2000) and of the Caméra d’Or Jury in 2006. In their latest feature, they take another plunge into their hometown, Liège, Belgium, to explore the character of Lorna, a young Albanian woman drawn by love into a sordid plot. The predicament will quickly take on tragic proportions, and the weight of silence will become increasingly heavy to bear. [CANNES]

In terms of the brother’s intentions:

“What interested us was telling the story of human beings from elsewhere, living in Western Europe. That’s mainly Lorna, and Sokol. How they manage – by means that we cannot exactly approve – to obtain what they think is their share of happiness We wanted this Lorna to remain human, with her dark side, her paradoxes, her contradictions, and her silence. But it’s a beautiful silence, because it will ‘give birth’ to something, if I may say.” [CANNES]

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VIDEO of the Photocall/Interview

VIDEO of the Press Conference

Variety review of Lorna’s Silence

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