The fourth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1999 features the Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or winner, the Dardenne brothers’ Rosetta. Written and directed by Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne and starring Émilie Dequenne, Fabrizio Rongione, Olivier Gourmet and Anne Yernaux, Rosetta won the Palme d’Or and Best Actress awards at Cannes.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/rosetta-2000), Lisa Schwarzbaum in Entertainment Weekly (https://ew.com/article/1999/11/19/rosetta-3/), and Stephen Holden in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/02/movies/film-festival-review-poor-belgian-girl-yearns-for-what-else-waffles.html).

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