The Silence of Lorna
(2008)
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The Silence of Lorna
(2008)
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| Jérémie Renier | ... |
Claudy Moreau
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| Fabrizio Rongione | ... |
Fabio
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Alban Ukaj | ... |
Sokol
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Morgan Marinne | ... |
Spirou
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| Olivier Gourmet | ... |
L'inspecteur
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Anton Yakovlev | ... |
Andrei
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Grigori Manoukov | ... |
Kostia
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Mireille Bailly | ... |
Monique Sobel
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Stéphanie Gob | ... |
Nurse
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Laurent Caron | ... |
Commissaire
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Baptiste Somin | ... |
Morgue Attendant
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Alexandre Trocky | ... |
Doctor
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Cédric Lenoir | ... |
Bank Attendant
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Cécile Boland | ... |
Female Doctor
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Sokol and Lorna, two Albanian emigrants in Belgium, dream of leaving their dreary jobs to set up a snack bar. They need money, and a permanent resident status. Claudy is a junkie - he needs money to satisfy his addiction. Andrei, the cigarette smuggler, must hold up for a while outside Russia; he has loads of money. Fabio, the Italian taxi driver and aspiring gang boss, elaborates a clever scheme: he will pay Claudy to marry Lorna so that she acquires a Belgian citizenship. Then she is to re-marry Andrei, who will in this way obtain the coveted EU passport - and pay a hefty price to Fabio and Lorna for the service. Like all plans, this one will not survive the contact with reality. Written by Eduardo Casais <casaise@acm.org>
Lorna is well played by the actress. Lorna is a complicated woman who is involved in a game between the Belgian underground and marrying a Russian mobster. The only problem is that she is married to a drug addict who needs to die. She is also in love with a man named Sokol. She dreams of running a snack bar or cafe rather than working at the laundromat. But things slowly go awry when she can't a divorce fast enough. Her current husband wants to quit and go clean. Lorna gets paid for the marriage and the arrangement with the Russian mobster. Along the way, we learn Lorna's ethnic background and her motives. The film's ending needs to be more clear. We will never know the future for Lorna at the end and that's troubling.