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The Unknown Girl (2016)

Crime | Mystery 
Rayting:   6.5/10 8.2K votes
Country: Belgium | France
Language: French
Release date: 20 October 2016

A female 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.

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ElMaruecan82 19 August 2018

I said I was waiting to be disappointed by a Dardennes brothers' film but I guess I wasn't in such a hurry and didn't expect that after six tremendous cinematic experience, seven wouldn't play as lucky number.

Disappointed is too harsh a word but I can't say I enjoyed "The Unknown Girl" even within the definition I give to the verb 'enjoying' when it comes to the Belgian siblings. You don't enjoy their films, you experience them, generally following a normal person in a sort of quest that will define a new path to his or her life, it's existential and essential, it's often a make-it or break-it journey with more than one destiny at stakes... and often ends with a lesson of humanity or humility, lesson, not lecture.

Let's make it clear, I'm not trying to find patterns in the Dardennes' body of work, but only a simple common thread which applies to every film I saw. My bias isn't even negative because I think the Dardennes are also caring for meaningfulness but while not meaninglessness, "The Unknown Girl" works differently because the story doesn't grab you with the same intensity. It is about a young hard-working doctor named Jenny (Adele Haenel) who refuses to open the door after the day is over and is busy telling her intern Julien (Olivier Bonnaud) how he shouldn't get overwhelmed by his emotions. The kid wanted to open the door but needed a sermon about how to be a doctor.

The day after, the verdict falls, Jenny learns that the woman was calling for help and that the door staying closed threw her at the hands of someone who apparently killed her. Jenny didn't know it was a cry for help, there was only one buzzing sound and naturally, she's devastated by the news, and so we are. At that point of the film, I was wondering what direction Jenny' life would take, where could she go anyway? Basically, the quest is simple and will consist in finding the identity of the woman, an African immigrant, and to understand what happened.

Jenny feels she owes that to her and our empathy is granted at that moment, if she can't redeem herself with someone, she needed to create a change in her life in order to give some weight to her gesture, there's got to be a before and an after, something to conceal the amount of poisoning guilt. So she declines a more promising job at a clinic, she encourages her intern to resume his medical studies and she leads her investigation as an amateur Hercule Poirot. The intent is noble but we're far from the usual framework of the Dardennes as many things don't quite work.

For instance, we don't see a real shift in Jenny's attitude, she remains constantly emotionless apart from a few moments of emotionality. I know it is a deliberate choice from the Dardennes not to let any spectacular emotion slip from the characters but seriously, without the plains, there would be no peaks, with Haenel, it seems we're always venturing in the realm of plains without any moment of true fragility or emotionality, Haenel leads her investigation with the enthusiasm of a shell-shocked victim so unusual even in a Dardennes film. "The Unknown Girl" was longer than their usual work and I felt like Emperor Joseph yawning at the Figaro representation in "Amadeus".

The second thing is the sense of danger, there are some threats pending over Jenny but since the object of her quest is dead, it's like we already reached a feeling of disclosure,

akb007 8 March 2017

Fmovies: Dr. Jenny Davin is a caring doctor. One evening She hears a knock on the surgery's front door after closing time and decides to ignore it. The next day, the body of the unknown visitor found on the banks of the Meuse and it's not from natural causes. With the help of security camera footage, Jenny decides to find out the identity of the unknown visitor. The story of the movie is very intimate and like Dardenne brothers previous movies, this film also focuses on a female character. Jenny's character was nicely handled by Haenel. They always place the female character in an unfamiliar situation. Like 'Two Days, One Night' this film also follows some door to door conversation. Overall, it's a one time watchable investigation drama and Haenel's caring character was one of the best things that happened in this film.

subxerogravity 19 September 2017

Simple yet effective, The Unknown Girl starts out as a typical day in the life of Jenny Davin, a doctor running a private clinic who feels guilty not answering a late night door bell ring at the office that oddly ends up costing a young woman her life. Feeling guilty, when Davin discovers that this woman's identity is unknown she makes an effort to find out who she is so that she won't have to lie in an unmarked grave.

It's a well done movie, I'm very impressed with what they did with so little. Some what like a Dogme 95 movie in the sense that they do nothing to enhance the story, which is so basic. No music, no flashy cuts or cinematography. Nothing to make it sparkle, Yet it does. It could have been so dull but it wasn't at all, was interesting and really pulls you into the story. worth seeing.

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frukuk 12 May 2019

The Unknown Girl fmovies. This was so incredibly predictable: the "unknown girl" was exactly who I expected her to be; I even (jokingly) guessed (correctly) that another person was her relative.

There's nothing unexpected about the "journey" that Doctor Jenny goes on. It seems almost to be a very poor remake of "The Vanishing" (1988), since she seems driven to take stupid risks in order to find out the truth.

A complete and utter waste of time.

t-dooley-69-386916 8 March 2017

Dr Jenny Davin is a young go getter, she is running a small practice but is destined for much better things in the filed of medicine. She has an intern/locum who she rides pretty hard and seems to be lacking in all but professional courtesies.

Then one night her practice door bell rings and she refuses to have it answered. Later she finds that it was the last attempt of a young girl to get help before she was murdered. Faced with the weight of what she has done – or rather not done – she becomes obsessed with finding out who the girl was and so begins a quest for the truth.

This is a bleak film, the town is crumbling and grey and everything has the feel of neglect – this is replicated in the way some of the people are treated and the victim is no exception. However, at the centre of it all is hope and decency and so the two are finely balanced against each other in a way that holds the yin and yang together nicely.

The acting is all great too and it will keep your attention until the final reveal. It is well written directed and shot too – so not a lot not to like – in French this is a film for those who like to an unusual plot and appreciate the smaller things that cinema has to offer.

claudio_carvalho 15 February 2017

The efficient Dr. Jenny Davin (Adèle Haenel) works hard and has been chosen to replace Dr. Habran (Yves Larec), who has just retired, at the Kennedy Hospital. One night, someone rings the bell of her office after-hours and Dr. Davin asks her trainee Julien (Olivier Bonnaud) to not open the door since does not to seem an emergency. On the next morning, Police Inspectors Ben Mahmoud (Ben Hamidou) and Bercaro (Laurent Caron) require her surveillance tape since a teenager was found dead on the other side of the road and they are investigating what happened. Jenny feels guilty for not opening the door and becomes obsessed to find the teenager's identity. Her investigation affects her relationship with patients that might know something about the unknown girl.

"La fille inconnue", a.k.a. ("The Unknown Girl", is a film impressively realistic with a storyline of human values and obsession. Like most of the European movies (Belgium / France), the plot is developed at a slow-pace, supported by the great performance of Adèle Haenel. It is good to see the human values of her character that is deeply affected by her attitude. It is also interesting to see how doctors work in France, going to the patient's home and attending also during the night. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "A Garota Desconhecida" ("The Unknown Girl")

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