The Unknown Girl

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The Dardennes occupy a unique, oft-imitated place… the minor-key Unknown Girl offers melancholy reflections alongside subtle rewards to be savored

Hollywood Reporter
  • Archive - Festival 32
  • Director: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
  • Belgium, France 2016
  • 113 minutes
  • French
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

Working late one night, Jenny, a talented young physician, ignores a buzzing at the front door of her clinic. When the police discover the body of an unidentified African woman the next day, Jenny realizes that it was the murdered woman trying to get in. Unable to bear her own complicity in the crime, Jenny becomes obsessed with discovering who the woman was, where she came from and why she died.
Filmography: Two Days, One Night (2014), The Kid with a Bike (2011), The Silence of Lorna (2008), L'enfant (2005), The Son (2002), Rosetta (1999), La Promesse (1996).


  • Director Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
  • Production Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Denis Freyd
  • Script Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
  • Cinematography Alain Marcoen
  • Editing Marie-Hélène Dozo
  • Festivals Cannes, Toronto, London, New York
  • Actors Adèle Haenel, Olivier Bonnaud, Jérémie Renier, Olivier Gourmet
  • Produced with support by United King Films, Ramat Hasharon
  • Source Wild Bunch, Paris

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