The Unknown Girl
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art 227 State St., Madison, Wisconsin 53703
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The Unknown Girl (La Fille inconnue)
(2016, Belgium/France, 106 min., Digital)
Dir: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne; Cast: Adèle Haenel, Olivier Bonnaud, Jérémie Renier
Across a twenty-year streak of neorealist masterworks, the Dardenne brothers have so firmly cemented their stature among the greatest living filmmakers as to risk being taken for granted. And yet they continue to raise the bar with superb moral tales that no film lover can pass up. In the followup to their Oscar-nominated Two Days, One Night, the brothers introduce a new element of film noir intrigue to their unerring social consciousness. Rising world cinema star Adèle Haenel gives a spellbinding performance as a doctor who becomes fixated on solving a crime that occurs outside the door of her clinic. Her novice detective work leads her into Liege’s underworld, where she must reckon with class barriers. In French with English subtitles.
"The Unknown Girl" trailer
MMoCA’s Spotlight Cinema premieres critically acclaimed and award-winning narrative feature films.
Admission is free for MMoCA members and $7 per screening for the general public. Ticket sales begin at 6:30 pm in the museum’s lobby. Curated by Mike King, Spotlight Cinema is a program of MMoCA’s education department. The series is generously funded by maiahaus, Venture Investors, LLC, and an anonymous donor.