The Unknown Girl

Original title: La fille inconnue

2016
Unrated
1h 53m

IMDb RATING

6.5/10

11K

YOUR RATING

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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

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IMDb RATING

6.5/10

11K

YOUR RATING

Directors
- Jean-Pierre Dardenne
- Luc Dardenne
Writers
- Jean-Pierre Dardenne
- Luc Dardenne
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 2 wins & 7 nominations

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

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Review

Featured review

Well Done

"The Unknown Girl" is one of the most refreshing and original pictures to come out in several years. It is a character study of a female doctor coming to grips with her conscience as she ignores a frantic after-hours caller who is subsequently killed. She becomes a part- time detective to find out what happened to the girl, becoming obsessed at the expense of her practice and at considerable risk to her own safety.

French actress Adele Haenel gives a thoughtful, understated performance as the doctor/ detective. She is in nearly every scene, wearing a hooded parka out of season and with a determined innocence and disregard for normal investigative procedure, which she improvises as she goes. The film achieves the 'suspension of disbelief' necessary for films to work, and receives great assistance from an almost-perfect mise en scene on the streets of Liege, Belgium. It becomes real, for an hour and 50 minutes. Ignore bad reviews and see if you agree it is as close to perfection as filmdom can get.