![]() ![]() No exploitative, explosive, abusive scenes. Trust needs to be rebuilt for her to continue living and tackle difficulties afresh! In a way, she has lack tenderness, love and warmth for so long that she's numb to human kindness - she needs to be thawed! One has to be patient with her, to give her time and see through her tough surface and rekindle her heart. ![]() ![]() She risked her newfound friendship - she desperately needed "to have a job". It was not easy for her to have done what she did - she did hesitate and took the risk. Out of desperation, she did something that most of us viewers may not be able to comprehend - but what do we know of her travails, who are we to judge her action? Only to wake up and report at work to be told she's again out of a job. She actually was able to peacefully sleep that night. At one point, we can almost be happy for her to have "found a friend" in Riquet (Fabrizio Rongione), a waffle street van vendor. moonlighting) and to have "a normal life", not to "fell into a rut". Yet, she's intensely single-minded on getting "a real job" (vs. Things may be seemingly repetitive: again and again we see her crossing that traffic roadway, jumping into the bush trail we hear the rustling leaves, the thumping of her footsteps we watch her stopping by the hideout where she kept her rubber boots, changing her only good pair of working shoes we follow her as she crawls through the wire fence loophole, arriving at the campers - feels like a mindless routine. A young person with so much burden on her shoulder and a heavy heart. Rosetta (Emilie Dequenne) is unrelentingly stubborn about receiving kindness, or food unsolicited. She cares for her mother, a helpless alcoholic, and a seamstress when not drunk. She fights vigorously to hang on to a job. Unsparingly direct depiction of a young girl's poverty struggle. This is beyond the intensity of Gary Oldman's "Nil By Mouth", and Tim Roth's "The War Zone", while Erick Zonca's "Dreamlife of Angels" seems heavenly compared to the conditions presented in "Rosetta" by Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne.Ī down right harsh film. Reviewed by ruby_fff 7 / 10 It's a hard life - crude and bitter medicine: harsh poverty unabashedly delivered and desperation complete ![]()
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