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"Your name is Rosetta" - "My name is Rosetta"
"You have found a job" - "I have found a job"
"You have found a friend" - "I have found a friend"
"You have a normal life" - "I have a normal life"
"You will not end up in a black hole" - "I will not end up in a black hole" (...)
It's not like that.
Rosetta DOES NOT have a job. Or rather, not anymore. Even though it might be more appropriate to talk about the illusion of work. After already being left without a job once because "the trial period was over," she finds a job selling pods and drinks at a kiosk. Only to be almost immediately replaced by the manager's son for reasons obviously not dependent on her.
Rosetta has found a friend. The only one who takes her situation to heart. He works with her at the kiosk, and he helped her get hired before the new dismissal mentioned earlier. Only that she first lets the idea of not saving him from a near drowning cross her mind, then directly betrays him by revealing a trick he used at work (taking extra pods prepared by him home) to get her job back at the expense, however, of the poor friend.
Rosetta DOES NOT have a normal life. "Normal". She is 16 years old. She lives in conditions of misery in a trailer with her alcoholic mother and in semi-prostitution conditions towards the camp owner. To get by as unemployed, she stitches and resells old clothes at knockdown prices. She does everything herself and also has health problems.
Rosetta is already in a black hole.
Warnings: "Rosetta" is NOT a special effects film;
It is NOT a film with scenic effects;
It is NOT a film with long takes;
it is shot in a (deliberately) certainly non-virtuoso manner by the 2 Dardenne brothers;
It is NOT a film with superstar actors. (Even though Émilie Dequenne -the protagonist- will be launched by the film and -rightly so- awarded for her performance at Cannes, alongside the film).
"Rosetta" is NOT a "nice" film, it is NOT even a film.
"Rosetta" is reality. Tragic.
(...) "Goodnight" - "Goodnight".
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