Anne Yernaux, Bernard Marbaix, Fabrizio Rongione
Rosetta is a 17-year-old Italian girl who lives in a trailer park on the outskirts of the Belgian town of Seraing. She is driven by a need that quickly becomes her singular obsession: securing a stea...( read more
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Directed by: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Release Date: November 5, 1999
DVD Release Date: July 18, 2000
Stats: 132 reviews
Rosetta is a riveting look into the everyday existence of a strong willed teenage girl living in poverty with her alcoholic mother. To escape her dire economic situation she will do anything to get a job. Her basic desire is for a "normal life", which she equates with employmen...( read more)
Young and impulsive Rosetta lives with her alcoholic mother and, moved by despair, she will do anything to maintain a job....( read more)
I am enraged.Furious of what's wrong with governments.How to let know Rosetta otherwise,despite being a fictional character she's a manipulative object of the political system subdued by North America/Europe,deliberately powerful for the ongoing "machine" producing puppets to ser...( read more)
Emilie Dequenne gives a superb, compelling performance as pathetic Rosetta who struggles with permanent employment while distraught with an alcoholic mom. This Dardenne masterpiece probes into social class issues without providing definitive answer but ending with a slightly hope...( read more)
Welcome to the world of Rosetta; a life in poverty together with an alcoholised mother in a trailer park, where a job equals normality and the obsessive fight for a steady employment is an ever raging war.
I also welcome you to see a film without any characters you could sympath...( read more)
The movie balances between boredom and fascination, never really achieving any of them. But it was a decent movie, not far from the Dardenne style of directing...
Zibatarin filme Baradarane Dardenne, baa Emilie Duquenne zibaa. Bi rahmi, faghr, ensaanyat... 3 mozue morede alagheye Baradarane Dardenne ke dar in film be oje honareshun ressidan
You feel it in your nervous system before you get a chance to reflect on its meaning.
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