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Lorna's Silence, Courtesy Sony Pictures Classics
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July 31, 2009 – Aug 31, 2009
Daily
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$12.50
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Lorna's Silence — the Dardenne brothers' latest piece of blue-collar verisimilitude — merits neither the "master" prefix nor the lambasting it's taken for being a notch below their gold-certified efforts. But as it tracks the gradual regret-to-redemption of Lorna (Arta Dobroshi with a mesmeric debut), this Liège-set flick proves to be a trenchant combo of realism and thriller. An Albanian with hopes of opening a snack bar with her beau, Lorna has procured Belgian citizenship through an arranged marriage with junkie Claudy (emaciated, sensational Jérémie Renier) — legwork for a larger, more lucrative marriage/visa arrangement with a Russian mobster. Claudy, who's trying to go clean, eventually becomes more than a stand-in, and his sudden divorce from the narrative leads to an astonishing flash-flood of emotion in the mystical finale.
