Review of Rosetta (1999) by Greg W — 03 Oct 2013
Disturbing story of deep poverty in Belgium. A teenage girl around age 18, uneducated and unskilled, struggles to survive on her own. The few jobs she finds are all temporary, no one will give her permanent work and she refuses to be a beggar or to accept welfare.
She also has an alcoholic mom with no initiative and possible mental illness to take care of. She seems upstanding, virtuous and a hard worker but the need becomes so great she back stabs and betrays the one person who is kind and supportive to her just to get a steady job, a male teen who then proceeds to harass her.
The film was so powerful it actually changed laws in Belgium.
This review of Rosetta (1999) was written by Greg W on 03 Oct 2013.
Rosetta has generally received very positive reviews.
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