Lorna's Silence

Audiences have already shown they will accept a film where important characters die off-screen and with endings that are ambiguous but what if we're not talking No Country For Old Men but rather the stylish Lorna's Silence from Belgian brothers Luc Dardenne and Jean-Pierre Dardenne?
Lorna makes a Faustian bargain to gain Belgian citizenship, but the guilt causes her to experience a sense of false pregnancy. Then the same mobsters that paid her for the first deal want her to participate in another citizenship scam.
Lorna's Silence lets us see the story through the eyes and feelings of Arta Dobroshi (Lorna). It's a virtuoso performance going from weak to strong and then maybe a little out of her mind. Dobroshi may be petite but she houses a great deal of energy. Much of how you feel about Lorna's SIlence will depend on your reaction to Dobroshi's moral center. You're never quite sure where her loyalties lie.
The Dardenne Brothers keep the viewer guessing as to how collaborative Lorna is in the mobsters plan. All this goes on around Lorna's day to day life so that when events reach a boiling point there's no place to go but into the red. Lorna's Silence opens this weekend in an exclusive engagement at the Landmark River Oaks.