Synopsis
Jenny, a young doctor who feels guilty after a young woman she refused to see winds up dead a few days later, decides to find out who the girl was, after the police can't identify the young woman.
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Cast
- Adèle HaenelJenny Davin
- Olivier BonnaudJulien
- Jérémie RenierBryan's father
- Louka MinnellaBryan
- Nadège OuedraogoThe cybercafé cashier
- Christelle CornilBryan's mother
- Olivier GourmetLambert, the son
- Pierre SumkayLambert, the father
- Yves LarecDoctor Habran
- Ben HamidouInspector Ben Mahmoud
Recommendations
- 70
The Hollywood Reporter
Some of the most acute pleasures here are in the doctor-patient exchanges, depicting with a rigorous absence of fuss or sentiment a relationship that's as much intimate as professional. - 70
Screen Daily
If the intimate frame and dour, matter-of-fact aesthetic suggest a return to the raw territory of La Promesse or The Son, what is new here is a flirtation with genre that lends an extra dose of resonance to a finely-scripted story. - 70
Variety
Though what we get is largely exemplary: a simple but urgent objective threaded with needling observations of social imbalance, a camera that gazes with steady intent into story-bearing faces, and an especially riveting example of one in their gifted, toughly tranquil leading lady Adèle Haenel. What’s missing...is any great sense of narrative or emotional surprise. - 67
IndieWire
The Unknown Girl combines its naturalistic direction with a strong lead performance and topicality, although these ingredients are hobbled by their familiarity. - 67
The Playlist
The somewhat drab aesthetic and almost vanishingly understated performance style dull the potential pleasures of a good old-fashioned whodunnit to roughly the luminosity of an above-average feature-length episode of a TV procedural. - 60
The Telegraph
It’s only in the final stages of assembly that you start to realise some bits are missing. - 60
Time Out London
Some clunky coincidences and unlikely events confuse the film's mission, and it lacks the clarity and parable-like meaning of the brothers' best films. - 58
The Film Stage
Even the cinematography by the Dardennes’ long-time collaborator Alain Marcoen, usually so instrumental in ensnaring the viewer within their films’ ethical quandaries, is surprisingly flat this time around.
