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La fille inconnue

  • 2016
  • Tous publics
  • 1h 53m
IMDb RATING
6.5/10
11K
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Adèle Haenel in La fille inconnue (2016)
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Psychological DramaCrimeDramaMysteryThriller

A doctor gets obsessed with the case of a dead woman after learning that the woman had died shortly after having rung her door for help.A doctor gets obsessed with the case of a dead woman after learning that the woman had died shortly after having rung her door for help.A doctor gets obsessed with the case of a dead woman after learning that the woman had died shortly after having rung her door for help.

  • Directors
    • Jean-Pierre Dardenne
    • Luc Dardenne
  • Writers
    • Jean-Pierre Dardenne
    • Luc Dardenne
  • Stars
    • Adèle Haenel
    • Olivier Bonnaud
    • Jérémie Renier
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.5/10
    11K
    YOUR RATING
    • Directors
      • Jean-Pierre Dardenne
      • Luc Dardenne
    • Writers
      • Jean-Pierre Dardenne
      • Luc Dardenne
    • Stars
      • Adèle Haenel
      • Olivier Bonnaud
      • Jérémie Renier
    • 41User reviews
    • 140Critic reviews
    • 65Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 2 wins & 7 nominations total

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    Adèle Haenel
    Adèle Haenel
    • Jenny Davin
    Olivier Bonnaud
    • Julien
    Jérémie Renier
    Jérémie Renier
    • Le père de Bryan
    Louka Minnella
    Louka Minnella
    • Bryan
    Christelle Cornil
    Christelle Cornil
    • La mère de Bryan
    Nadège Ouedraogo
    Nadège Ouedraogo
    • La caissière du cybercafé
    Olivier Gourmet
    Olivier Gourmet
    • Le fils Lambert
    Pierre Sumkay
    • Le père Lambert
    Yves Larec
    • Le docteur Habran
    Ben Hamidou
    • L'inspecteur Ben Mahmoud
    Laurent Caron
    Laurent Caron
    • L'inspecteur Bercaro
    Fabrizio Rongione
    Fabrizio Rongione
    • Le docteur Riga
    Jean-Michel Balthazar
    Jean-Michel Balthazar
    • Le patient diabétique
    Thomas Doret
    Thomas Doret
    • Lucas
    Marc Zinga
    Marc Zinga
    • Le proxénète
    Morgan Marinne
    • Le grutier du chantier
    Sabri Ben Moussa
    • Le petit Ilyas
    Hassaba Halibi
    • La mère d'Ilyas
    • (as Hassiba Halabi)
    • Directors
      • Jean-Pierre Dardenne
      • Luc Dardenne
    • Writers
      • Jean-Pierre Dardenne
      • Luc Dardenne
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    User reviews41

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    GManfred

    Well Done

    "The Unknown Girl" is one of the most refreshing and original pictures to come out in several years. It is a character study of a female doctor coming to grips with her conscience as she ignores a frantic after-hours caller who is subsequently killed. She becomes a part- time detective to find out what happened to the girl, becoming obsessed at the expense of her practice and at considerable risk to her own safety.

    French actress Adele Haenel gives a thoughtful, understated performance as the doctor/ detective. She is in nearly every scene, wearing a hooded parka out of season and with a determined innocence and disregard for normal investigative procedure, which she improvises as she goes. The film achieves the 'suspension of disbelief' necessary for films to work, and receives great assistance from an almost-perfect mise en scene on the streets of Liege, Belgium. It becomes real, for an hour and 50 minutes. Ignore bad reviews and see if you agree it is as close to perfection as filmdom can get.
    7t-dooley-69-386916

    Belgian Mystery Thriller that is both bleak and rather good

    Dr Jenny Davin is a young go getter, she is running a small practice but is destined for much better things in the filed of medicine. She has an intern/locum who she rides pretty hard and seems to be lacking in all but professional courtesies.

    Then one night her practice door bell rings and she refuses to have it answered. Later she finds that it was the last attempt of a young girl to get help before she was murdered. Faced with the weight of what she has done – or rather not done – she becomes obsessed with finding out who the girl was and so begins a quest for the truth.

    This is a bleak film, the town is crumbling and grey and everything has the feel of neglect – this is replicated in the way some of the people are treated and the victim is no exception. However, at the centre of it all is hope and decency and so the two are finely balanced against each other in a way that holds the yin and yang together nicely.

    The acting is all great too and it will keep your attention until the final reveal. It is well written directed and shot too – so not a lot not to like – in French this is a film for those who like to an unusual plot and appreciate the smaller things that cinema has to offer.
    6akb007

    The story of a caring doctor!!!

    Dr. Jenny Davin is a caring doctor. One evening She hears a knock on the surgery's front door after closing time and decides to ignore it. The next day, the body of the unknown visitor found on the banks of the Meuse and it's not from natural causes. With the help of security camera footage, Jenny decides to find out the identity of the unknown visitor. The story of the movie is very intimate and like Dardenne brothers previous movies, this film also focuses on a female character. Jenny's character was nicely handled by Haenel. They always place the female character in an unfamiliar situation. Like 'Two Days, One Night' this film also follows some door to door conversation. Overall, it's a one time watchable investigation drama and Haenel's caring character was one of the best things that happened in this film.
    7claudio_carvalho

    Human Values and Obsession

    The efficient Dr. Jenny Davin (Adèle Haenel) works hard and has been chosen to replace Dr. Habran (Yves Larec), who has just retired, at the Kennedy Hospital. One night, someone rings the bell of her office after-hours and Dr. Davin asks her trainee Julien (Olivier Bonnaud) to not open the door since does not to seem an emergency. On the next morning, Police Inspectors Ben Mahmoud (Ben Hamidou) and Bercaro (Laurent Caron) require her surveillance tape since a teenager was found dead on the other side of the road and they are investigating what happened. Jenny feels guilty for not opening the door and becomes obsessed to find the teenager's identity. Her investigation affects her relationship with patients that might know something about the unknown girl.

    "La fille inconnue", a.k.a. ("The Unknown Girl", is a film impressively realistic with a storyline of human values and obsession. Like most of the European movies (Belgium / France), the plot is developed at a slow-pace, supported by the great performance of Adèle Haenel. It is good to see the human values of her character that is deeply affected by her attitude. It is also interesting to see how doctors work in France, going to the patient's home and attending also during the night. My vote is seven.

    Title (Brazil): "A Garota Desconhecida" ("The Unknown Girl")
    6dromasca

    guilt and responsibility

    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.

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    • Trivia
      The Dardennes revealed to Variety that they were planning to make this movie with Marion Cotillard as lead, but it didn't work out, so they decided to make Deux jours, une nuit (2014) with her instead.
    • Quotes

      Le père de Bryan: She doesn't care.

      Le père de Bryan: She's dead.

      Jenny Davin: If she was dead, she wouldn't be in our heads.

    • Alternate versions
      After its poor reception at its Cannes Film Festival, the film was reedited to be 7 minutes shorter, with 32 changes to the film. This new version premiered a little over a month later, on June 30th 2016, at the Institut Lumière in Lyon, and is the version that was then shown in all subsequent releases and festival showings.
    • Soundtracks
      Bye bye docteur Jenny
      Written by François Petit

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    • Release date
      • October 12, 2016 (France)
    • Countries of origin
      • Belgium
      • France
    • Official sites
      • BIM Distribuzione (Italy)
      • Cinéart (Belgium)
    • Language
      • French
    • Also known as
      • The Unknown Girl
    • Filming locations
      • Seraing, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium
    • Production companies
      • Les Films du Fleuve
      • Archipel 35
      • Savage Film
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    • Budget
      • €7,031,914 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $150,549
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $13,477
      • Sep 10, 2017
    • Gross worldwide
      • $2,432,640
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 53 minutes
    • Color
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    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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