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    Post dates are when I watched, parenthetical dates are the year of US release (aka Oscar eligibility).

1/31/2010

Lorna's Silence (2009)

Deeply felt movie about a woman caught up in a Belgium green card scheme -- kind of a tit-for-tat deal where she marries to get a card and then has to marry someone else to give a card -- but she's longing to get out because her humanity has caught up to her.

I spent most of the movie somewhat off-balance as we're kind of just dropped into the middle of things (is that her boyfriend? No. Her roommate. No, wait, her husband?), but the confusion somehow works to the story's advantage and the acting is quite good.

B+

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