Best movie of this year hands down!

Sadly Over-hyped

Horrible, fascist and poorly acted

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

Simple yet effective, The Unknown Girl starts out as a typical day in the life of Jenny Davin, a doctor running a private clinic who feels guilty not answering a late night door bell ring at the office that oddly ends up costing a young woman her life. Feeling guilty, when Davin discovers that this woman's identity is unknown she makes an effort to find out who she is so that she won't have to lie in an unmarked grave.It's a well done movie, I'm very impressed with what they did with so little. Some what like a Dogme 95 movie in the sense that they do nothing to enhance the story, which is so basic. No music, no flashy cuts or cinematography. Nothing to make it sparkle, Yet it does. It could have been so dull but it wasn't at all, was interesting and really pulls you into the story. worth seeing.http://cinemagardens.com

Jenny is a young and ambitious doctor. She has practice at a small public doctor's office. It is mostly routine and minimum pensioners, but she has the career ladder ready: Soon she will go on to a well- paid job in the private sector.Then there's an event that changes everything. A woman searches her and she does not accept her.This is the beginning of this moving, quiet, but intense movie. We follow Jenny closely in her settlement, both with her own morality and the choices she takes to find out what has happened. The film also has an overall perspective that deals with society in general, but it is primarily about seeking to find the truth, even if it causes suffering.I liked this movie well. It is well-behaved, gripping, and enters the doctor's obsession to find the truth. Almost at all costs.

Maybe it would have been a good movie, but for my taste has a big mistake, it's too long telling us things at the beginning that we do not care. Once presented the protagonist character, it is not necessary to see more times the same thing. There are many characters that do not tell us anything. And this only makes us bored.Adèle Haenel is fine, slightly cold for my taste, but it is that the film is very cold, too. For what counts should be what, but the problem is when the coldness is no longer achieved by photography, it does, but it gives the Dardenne brothers a movie without heart.It has a photograph that, to be French and typical French, at times, even something, but there are other moments that photography is not good.The obsession to make every plane sequence, leads to there are times when you do not see the actors, you want to make the plane in sequence about what you want to tell us and that is bad. The sequence plane is a narrative tool more, not an end. The management focuses on telling the story, but in a bad way, it does not matter the plane, the staging, photography. If you have to make an ugly camera move you do it instead of putting the camera where you should put it.I have largely remembered Citizen Kane, since it is the search for a name, only in this one, Orson if he cared that all aspects would fit well.

It's a small and dull city as many other in Belgium and Europe. It is inhabited by a mixed population, 'local' Europeans, more recent but well integrated Europeans (some of them are police inspectors), recent immigrants, some legal, some not. Again, as in many other cities of Belgium and Europe. This quite typical landscape of a place like many other in an Europe in change is the setting for 'La fille inconnue' the most recent film of brothers Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne and as in many of their recent movies the characters fight not only the dullness of life and problems in communication but also face moral choices and need to assume responsibility for their acts.The lead character is a young doctor in the community, who deeply cares about her patients. Being just a professional is not enough if you are a physician, this kind of message is quite obvious and smartly developed, as the best scenes in the film are the ones where we see doctor Jenny Davin interacting with her patients, taking care of their bodies but also of their life conditions and eventually of their souls. When faced with the guilt of not having answered a ring at the door much later than her work hours, which led to the tragic death of a young woman apparently followed by some bad people, the feelings of guilt will lead her to run her own inquiry with the main goal of discovering the identity of the victim and ensuring her family knows her fate, and that she is properly put to rest. This will let to the eventual discovery of the murderer, in a case that involves a non-negligible dose of shared responsibility of the people who surrounded her.The film is very much based on the lead character, one of these people who are capable of showing compassion and giving almost everything in there personal lives in order to help their human fellows. From this point of view it resembles another film of the Dardenne brothers which I liked a lot - The Kid with a Bike (Le gamin au velo). There are bad people in this world, but there are also good ones, and it's worth making films about them - this seems to be the shared message of the two films. 'La fille inconnue' however lacks the magnetism of The Kid and although Adèle Haenel gives a remarkable performance, this is not enough to fill in for the lack of pace and the rather unconvincing ending. Brother Dardenne's characters may seem to good to be true, and they do not owe anybody an explanation for being so - that's fine, but in the absence of a solid motivation there need to be more dramatic substance in the story. This is exactly what is missing in this film, just seeing good people in action in a difficult community may be enough for a documentary, but not for a full feature.