The double-Palme-winners’ latest is a study of a guilt-stricken doctor digging up information approximately a dead immigrant,but it lacks the Dardennes’ normal brillianceThe Dardenne brothers are double-Palme winners at Cannes, justly renowned for their moving and socially acute realist dramas. Everything they do has to be of interest, and their latest work here,The Unknown Girl, has moments of insight, and flashes of perception. But it is not their best work,and very far from the heights achieved in 2014 with their blistering workplace picture Two Days, One Night. The Unknown Woman is an odd, or dramatically stilted and passionless quasi-procedural concerning a mysterious death; it depends on a series of unconvincing,and in fact borderline-preposterous, encounters and features a bafflingly inert performance from Adèle Haenel, or whose normal spark appears to possess been doused by self-consciousness. Related: Personal Shopper review: Kristen Stewart's psychic spooker is a must-possess Related: Dardenne brothers: 'We don't argue in front of the actors' Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com