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  • 2017
  • Unrated
  • Sundance Selects
  • 1 h 53 m
  • 2017
  • Unrated
  • Sundance Selects
  • 1 h 53 m

Summary One evening after work hours, Jenny (Adèle Haenel), a young doctor, allows the door buzzer at the small clinic where she works to go unanswered. It’s only later that she learns that the person ringing was an unidentified African woman found dead shortly after by the side of a road. Consumed by the thought that she is to blame, Jenny emba...

Directed By: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne

Written By: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne

  • 2017
  • Unrated
  • Sundance Selects
  • 1 h 53 m
  • 2017
  • Unrated
  • Sundance Selects
  • 1 h 53 m

The Unknown Girl

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 21 Critic Reviews
65
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 23 User Ratings
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Summary One evening after work hours, Jenny (Adèle Haenel), a young doctor, allows the door buzzer at the small clinic where she works to go unanswered. It’s only later that she learns that the person ringing was an unidentified African woman found dead shortly after by the side of a road. Consumed by the thought that she is to blame, Jenny emba...

Directed By: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne

Written By: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 21 Critic Reviews
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71% Positive
15 Reviews
24% Mixed
5 Reviews
5% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 21 Critic Reviews
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71% Positive
15 Reviews
24% Mixed
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5% Negative
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90
Sep 7, 2017
The Unknown Girl is as tense as a police procedural, and as mysterious as a religious parable.
By A.O. Scott FULL REVIEW
75
Sep 28, 2017
The question that looms large here, lingering long after the closing credits, is whether, despite our human need for forgiveness, absolution is ever truly possible.
By Michael O'Sullivan FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 23 User Ratings
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30% Mixed
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30% Mixed
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9% Negative
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70
Sep 4, 2017
You think afresh of the film’s title and wonder, Who is more unknown here, the nameless victim or the inscrutable doctor?
By Anthony Lane FULL REVIEW
70
May 19, 2016
Some of the most acute pleasures here are in the doctor-patient exchanges, depicting with a rigorous absence of fuss or sentiment a relationship that's as much intimate as professional.
By David Rooney FULL REVIEW
67
May 19, 2016
The Unknown Girl combines its naturalistic direction with a strong lead performance and topicality, although these ingredients are hobbled by their familiarity.
By Eric Kohn FULL REVIEW
58
May 19, 2016
Even the cinematography by the Dardennes’ long-time collaborator Alain Marcoen, usually so instrumental in ensnaring the viewer within their films’ ethical quandaries, is surprisingly flat this time around.
By Giovanni Marchini Camia FULL REVIEW
38
Sep 20, 2016
This is a left-footed and clumsily insistent work, exposing the worst aspects inherent to the Dardennes' style.
By Jake Cole FULL REVIEW
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Production Company Les Films du Fleuve, Archipel 35, Savage Film, France 2 Cinéma, VOO, BE TV, Radio Télévision Belge Francophone (RTBF), Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds, Eurimages, Canal+, Ciné+, France Télévisions, La Wallonie, Tax Shelter du Gouvernement Fédéral Belge, Casa Kafka Pictures, Casa Kafka Pictures Movie Tax Shelter Empowered by Belfius, Wild Bunch, Diaphana Distribution, Cinéart, BIM Distribuzione
Release Date Sep 8, 2017
Duration 1 h 53 m
Rating Unrated
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Tagline Adèle Haenel is Mesmerising!
Website https://www.bimfilm.com/schede/laragazzasenzanome/
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Awards

SESC Film Festival, Brazil
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Online Film Critics Society Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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