Tonight on TV: A film of rare power is rightly awarded the Palme d’Or

Inspired by the character of K du Franz Castle About Kafka, Luke Darden imagines the story of a young girl who is constantly excluded from the society she wants to be a part of. Together with her brother Jean-Pierre, she completed the screenplay for Rosetta, which told the story of an 18-year-old young woman’s relentless war after being fired from her job.

To embody this particularly powerful title role, the filmmaking duo cast a non-professional actress in the person of Emily Deken. A real find, she was awarded the prize for Best Actress at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.

Behind the moving portrait of a woman, Rosetta Also refers to a certain social situation without voyeurism and didacticism. Influenced by Italian neorealism, the cinema of Maurice Pialati and John Cassavetes, or even Robert Bresson’s film Mouchette, the Dardenne brothers make their mark: the camera on the shoulder, as close as possible to their protagonist, in everyday situations where the banal and the extraordinary intersect.

While everyone was waiting for the coronation of Pedro Almodovar’s All About My Mother, the jury of the 1999 Cannes Film Festival unanimously awarded them the Palme d’Or.

Rosetta By Jean-Pierre Dardin and Luc Dardin with Emilie Deccan, Fabrizio Rongione, Olivier Gourmand…

Tonight on France 4 at 9 p.m.