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The Unknown Girl

Original title: La fille inconnue
  • 2016
  • Unrated
  • 1h 53m
IMDb RATING
6.5/10
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Adèle Haenel in The Unknown Girl (2016)
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A doctor gets obsessed with the case of a dead woman after learning that the woman had died shortly after having rung her door for help.A doctor gets obsessed with the case of a dead woman after learning that the woman had died shortly after having rung her door for help.A doctor gets obsessed with the case of a dead woman after learning that the woman had died shortly after having rung her door for help.

  • Directors
    • Jean-Pierre Dardenne
    • Luc Dardenne
  • Writers
    • Jean-Pierre Dardenne
    • Luc Dardenne
  • Stars
    • Adèle Haenel
    • Olivier Bonnaud
    • Jérémie Renier
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.5/10
    10K
    YOUR RATING
    • Directors
      • Jean-Pierre Dardenne
      • Luc Dardenne
    • Writers
      • Jean-Pierre Dardenne
      • Luc Dardenne
    • Stars
      • Adèle Haenel
      • Olivier Bonnaud
      • Jérémie Renier
    • 38User reviews
    • 151Critic reviews
    • 65Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 2 wins & 8 nominations

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    Adèle Haenel
    Adèle Haenel
    • Jenny Davin
    Olivier Bonnaud
    • Julien
    Jérémie Renier
    Jérémie Renier
    • Le père de Bryan
    Louka Minnella
    Louka Minnella
    • Bryan
    Christelle Cornil
    Christelle Cornil
    • La mère de Bryan
    Nadège Ouedraogo
    Nadège Ouedraogo
    • La caissière du cybercafé
    Olivier Gourmet
    Olivier Gourmet
    • Le fils Lambert
    Pierre Sumkay
    • Le père Lambert
    Yves Larec
    • Le docteur Habran
    Ben Hamidou
    • L'inspecteur Ben Mahmoud
    Laurent Caron
    Laurent Caron
    • L'inspecteur Bercaro
    Fabrizio Rongione
    Fabrizio Rongione
    • Le docteur Riga
    Jean-Michel Balthazar
    Jean-Michel Balthazar
    • Le patient diabétique
    Thomas Doret
    Thomas Doret
    • Lucas
    Marc Zinga
    Marc Zinga
    • Le proxénète
    Morgan Marinne
    • Le grutier du chantier
    Sabri Ben Moussa
    • Le petit Ilyas
    Hassaba Halibi
    • La mère d'Ilyas
    • (as Hassiba Halabi)
    • Directors
      • Jean-Pierre Dardenne
      • Luc Dardenne
    • Writers
      • Jean-Pierre Dardenne
      • Luc Dardenne
    • All cast & crew
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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      The Dardennes revealed to Variety that they were planning to make this movie with Marion Cotillard as lead, but it didn't work out, so they decided to make Two Days, One Night (2014) with her instead.
    • Quotes

      Le père de Bryan: She doesn't care.

      Le père de Bryan: She's dead.

      Jenny Davin: If she was dead, she wouldn't be in our heads.

    • Alternate versions
      After its poor reception at its Cannes Film Festival, the film was reedited to be 7 minutes shorter, with 32 changes to the film. This new version premiered a little over a month later, on June 30th 2016, at the Institut Lumière in Lyon, and is the version that was then shown in all subsequent releases and festival showings.
    • Soundtracks
      Bye bye docteur Jenny
      Written by François Petit

    User reviews38

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    8/10
    Beguiling Themes; guilt, doctor-patient relationship, immigrants, underworld, . .
    "A good doctor is not emotional," maintains Dr. Jenny Davin. "If you are moved by a patient's suffering, it causes a bad diagnosis." Dr. Davin runs a medical clinic in Liege and is moving swiftly up the career ladder. Late at night the clinic door buzzer rings. There is a young woman and a plea for help. The plea is ignored. Dr. Davin wants her good doctor mantra to stick for her office intern. "She will come back tomorrow," says Dr. Davin of the unknown girl. Yet the next day the woman, an immigrant, is found dead. Consumed by guilt, Dr. Davin searches for clues to who this woman is and why she died. In this way Dr. Davin enters an underworld in the community, full of fear and manipulation, that she never knew of before and from which she may not return.

    The film explores enticing themes; immigrants trapped in a web of fear, finding the balance between too much emotion and too little, and – the most beguiling – the right amount of emotion for a doctor to utilize in their trade. "Wouldst thou, then, have preferred the condition of a weak woman, exposed to all evil, and capable of none?" Dr. Rappaccini asks his daughter Beatrice, in Hawthorne's wonderful story. "I would fain have been loved," answers Beatrice "not feared." Dr. Davin walks the same line between love and fear, empathy and professional judgment, arrogance and weakness, . . .

    The Dardenne brothers are masters at their trade. They specialize in portraying economic and social justice, as they do here. It is a slow-paced, yet seducing film. It is two weeks after I saw the film and the lessons it teaches linger. The story simmers in a tantalizing way in my mind. Seen at the Miami International Film Festival.
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    • Apr 2, 2017

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    • Release date
      • August 25, 2017 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • Belgium
      • France
    • Official sites
      • Archipel 35 (France)
      • BIM Distribuzione (Italy)
    • Language
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Cô Gái Vô Danh
    • Filming locations
      • Seraing, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium
    • Production companies
      • Les Films du Fleuve
      • Archipel 35
      • Savage Film
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • €7,031,914 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $150,549
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $13,477
      • Sep 10, 2017
    • Gross worldwide
      • $2,432,640
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 53 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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