- Actors: Jérémie Renier, Olivier Gourmet, Assita Ouedraogo, Émilie Dequenne, Fabrizio Rongione
- Directors: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
- Writers: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
- Producers: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Arlette Zylberberg, Claude Waringo, Hassen Daldoul
- Format: PAL
- Language French, Romanian
- Subtitles: English
- Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.77:1
- Number of discs: 2
- Classification: 15
- Studio: Artificial Eye
- DVD Release Date: 17 April 2001
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00005B5XH
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 53,461 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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16:9 Wide Screen
Italian
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Award Ceremony Footage
Cast Biographies
Director Biographies And Filmographies
Interview With Luc And Jean Pierre Dardenne
Stills Gallery
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Dutch\English\Italian
Italian
French
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Dolby Digital 2.0 French Italian
Dolby Digital 2.0
Award Ceremony Footage
Cast Biographies
Director Biographies And Filmographies
Interview With Luc And Jean Pierre Dardenne
Stills Gallery
Theatrical Trailer
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"Rosetta" - Winner of the 1999 Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and widely hailed as a masterpiece, 'Rosetta' is an extraordinary portrait of a resourceful teenage girl struggling to find her way in a tough world. Written and directed with great skill and energy by writer/director brothers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, the film stars newcomer Emilie Dequenne, who won the Cannes Best Actress award for her outstanding realisation of this title role
"La Promesse" - Made three years earlier, 'La Promesse' is the story of 15 year old Igor, who helps his small time crook father run a scam illegally employing immigrants on building sites. But when one of the workers is fatally injured, Igor promises to look after the man's wife and child - a promise that changes Igor's life forever
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Thoughts on Rosetta,
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This review is from: Rosetta/La Promesse [DVD] [2000] (DVD)
My first reaction at the end of this film was that I'd seen something remarkable, and several years later, after some reflection, I still think so.The story line is very basic; Rosetta, a girl in her late teens, lives with her alcoholic mother in a permanent caravan park outside a largish industrial Belgian town. As her mother is incapable for most of the time, it has fallen on Rosetta to provide for the two of them as best as she can. Rosetta refuses to sink into the same mire as her mother who is still flirting with prostitution as a means of survival, and desperately wants to find a 'normal' job, however mundane, to furnish an existence that most people take for granted. The film centres on Rosetta's brushes with employment and her fury at various bosses who sack her when they find out her background and the domestic scenes with her mother whom she variously cares for, hates and literally picks up from the floor. The only hope is a local young man who develops some sort of feelings for her, though even this is compromised when she betrays him to steal his job. The directors have used various methods to depict this. There is the strong flavour of independent cinema and repetition techniques - it is a mighty long way from Hollywood; some scenes are reminiscent of French 'relationship' movies like Betty Blue; others recall traditions of British realism; and then there is the hand held camera. The repetition is not boring, but lyrical; the 'relationship' if it can be called that is extremely tenuous, so that the one time Rosetta smiles it stands out like an explosion; the realism makes some of Ken Loach's work seem more like Emmerdale (a British soap); the hand held camera makes you giddy, but follows Rosetta so closely, so intimately in all her brave gravity, that you sometimes can't bear it. It would be impossible to see this film and not be amazed by the performance of Emilie Dequenne, so convincingly is she inside the skin of her directors' creation. Don't buy this if you only like conventional cinema, but do buy it if you like a challenge!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Dardennes do it again - Rosetta Review,
By Mr. L. C. Rothery "Lee from Southowram" (Halifax, West Yorkshire, Albion) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Rosetta/La Promesse [DVD] [2000] (DVD)
Another fantastic film from the Dardenne brothers, the winner of the Palme D'Or in 1999. I wouldn't put it in the same category as L'Enfant or Les Silence De Lorna but all the same, a great film. No one does realism quite like the Dardennes in European cinema. At first the film is quite slow but the plot pulls its self together eventually and it shows a fantastic, fulfilling piece of cinema. It felt so realt that at times it was like I was watching a documentary. Another key aspect for me was the absence of any type of soundtrack and although this only served to highlight the reality it still could have maybe done with some music to enhance the emotions a bit more. I think Rosetta's plight is one in which we can identify with but as a viewer I initially felt empathy with Rosetta but I lost this sense of empathy due to the decisions she made. For me, this reduction in empathy made it a great piece of work as it tended to avoid cliche and a usual plot you get in so many films. Fantastic, a very good 65%.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Rosetta grinds you down,
By Jan Mecir (Devon,UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Rosetta/La Promesse [DVD] [2000] (DVD)
First time i saw this i was a bit underwhelmed. Then i was wowed by The Son and gave Rosetta another go. Better on 2nd watch cus I'm appreciating better the Dardennes deliberate effectless style but still nothing really grabbed me about it.So this is my 3rd and last go at this film. How I'm watching now has to stand as my final evaluation Émilie Dequenne won Best Actress at Cannes in 1999. She does a lot of tussling, stomping around, barging about - in perpetual motion - which the hand held camera captures to giddily exhaustive effect. There's an earnest humourlessnes about her. Mind you, shes got nothing much to smile or sing or dance about. Can't dance, won't dance, don't dance. That dance scene with putative boyfriend is painfully awkward to watch. Rosetta continues her chasing about. It's like following a feral animal, or a stray dog, having to be on the run the whole time, searching for some secure place to finally be. But not finding anywhere, not getting safe. The camera is almost like another body. An extension of her body. The handheld camera has become her body. Here comes a touching moment - her Self Prayer: "Your name is Rosetta, my name is Rosetta, You found a job/I found a job, You've got a friend/I've got a friend, You have a normal life/I have a normal life, You won't fall in the rut/I won't fall in the rut". This splitting of herself into 2 emphasizes how through disassociation she might be able to bear her life better. It does help to be acquainted with the Dardenne method. Then you drop the need to feel entertained by the film or pleased intellectually by aesthetics or arty cinematography; rather the engagement gets to feel more visceral, an experience of being with what you see as if it were something equivalent to actual life - the life you live, the living - moving, struggling, coping, surviving - you share with Rosetta. Yes, it's finally got to me this film. I've succumbed to its relentless necessity.
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