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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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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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    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.
    7bob998

    Adele Haenel shines in a difficult part

    When you settle down to watch a Dardenne brothers film, you know you'll be put through the wringer. Desperate people, harrowing situations--your emotions will be put to the test. I wanted to yell at Jenny Davin at several points "You are not a character in a Dostoevsky novel! Don't take all this grief on yourself!" But so compelling is the story, and so successful is Adele Haenel at embodying this young doctor, that my sang froid soon returned.

    The stalwarts Jeremie Renier and Olivier Gourmet contribute solid performances here, and bit players are often effective (the black actor playing the pimp is really scary) but it's Haenel you'll remember for a long time. She was the girl on a survival course in Les combattants, and the really vain teenager in Naissance des pieuvres; now she has made a really important title for her filmography.
    8howard.schumann

    About moral character, accountability, and spiritual redemption

    While The Unknown Girl, the latest film by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne ("Two Days, One Night"), is suggestive of social and political issues such as immigration, unemployment, and economic imbalance, its main concern is with moral character, accountability, and spiritual redemption. Like many other films of the Dardenne Brothers, it is simple, natural, and direct, without using a musical background or resorting to sentimentality. Consistent with recent exceptional performances from established actresses such as Cecile de France in The Kid With a Bike and Marion Cotillard in Two Days, One Night, Adele Haenel ("Love at First Flight") is transfixing as Dr. Jenny Davin, a young general practitioner in Saraing, Belgium whose quiet strength, professionalism, and fierce determination dominate the film and make it a worthy addition to the two-time Palme d'Or winners' oeuvre.

    Shot by cinematographer Alain Marcoen ("Two Days, One Night"), the film begins at a small clinic where Jenny has been filling in for the retiring Dr. Habran (Yves Larec) but must soon decide whether to accept a more lucrative position out of town. When a young boy has convulsions, Jenny deal with it promptly but later calls out her intern,, Julien (Olivier Bonnaud) for letting his emotions get the better of him, a dressing down that causes him to rethink whether or not he wants to be a doctor, though she later confesses to him that she was being high-handed. Her next admonition to Julien, however, has much more serious consequences.

    When they hear an after-hours buzzing on the intercom, she instructs him to ignore it, telling the young intern that he cannot let patients rule him. When a young African woman is found dead on the opposite side of the freeway by the river Meuse, however, Jenny is riddled with guilt. It is soon clear that the deceased woman was the same person who knocked on their door late at night, yet without any identification papers, discovering her identity and the cause of her death is a challenge which becomes the central focus of the film. Though it deals with a possible criminal investigation, it is less of a "whodunit" than an exploration of the many ways in which people deal with feelings of guilt.

    Realizing that if she had answered the ring, the young woman might still be alive, Jenny takes it upon herself to conduct a solo investigation. Hoping to discover the victim's name and find anyone who knew her in order to give her a proper burial, Jenny walks around the town, talking to adults and children who may have seen the woman, showing them her photo and reassuring them that any information they provide will be held in confidence. Though most are in denial and refuse to cooperate, Jenny is able to pick up important signals, especially in an interview with a teenager (Louka Minneli) when his accelerated pulse rate indicates that he may not be telling the truth.

    The Unknown Girl is mostly muted with little variation in tone, but there are moments of joy when two young male patients sing a lovely song they wrote for Jenny, and when an elderly woman throws a gift of a panettone out the window into Jenny's waiting arms. It also touches on the spiritual when a man asks Jenny, "Why should I screw up my life if she's already dead?" and Jenny replies, "Because, if she were dead, she wouldn't be on our minds." While a too-neat resolution and a lack of the element of surprise keep the film from being in the top rank of the Dardennes' works, its message that healing can only begin when there is a willingness to communicate and to be responsible for one's actions is as good as any that have been delivered in previous films.
    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.
    7subxerogravity

    Not your typical murder mystery.

    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.

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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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