Release Date
June 5, 2009 (Limited)
DVD Release Date
January 5, 2010 (Buy on Amazon)
Director
Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Writer
Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Cast
Jérémie Renier, Alban Ukaj, Fabrizio Rongione, Jeremie Renier
Studio
Running Time
105 minutes
MPA Rating
Rated R for brief sexuality/nudity, and language
The destiny of a woman caught between love and the law of the underworld. Lorna (Arta Dobroshi), a young Albanian woman living in Belgium, has her sights set on opening a snack bar with her boyfriend, Sokol (Alban Ukaj). In order to do so, she becomes an accomplice in a diabolical plan devised by mobster Fabio (Fabrizio Rongione). Fabio has set up a false marriage between Lorna and Claudy (Jeremie Renier) allowing Lorna to get... Full synopsis »
MOVIE REVIEW
In Lorna's Silence, an Albanian woman is pushed to her moral limits to achieve her dream of opening a snack bar by getting entangled with a local mobster and marrying a druggie for money. When the mobster kills her husband and prepares for another immigrant to take her place, she realizes that she's gotten in over her head. Full movie review »
