Lorna's Silence
Lorna's Silence is a dreary story of intrigue from Belgium. Lorna (Arta Dobroshi) works at a laundry but her home life is not nearly so mundane. For starters she has an associate named Fabio (Fabrizio Rongione) who acts like a pimp and whose vocation as a taxi driver is clearly a front. She dreams of opening a café with her boyfriend Sokol(Alban Ukaj) who is sweet enough when he’s not talking like a terrorist. All this seems incongruous since she’s married to a heroin addict named Claudy (Jérémie Renier) but what slowly comes to light is that her marriage is a sham and everyone is using Lorna, especially Fabio. He’s in the people smuggling business and all plots lead to facilitating the immigration of a wealthy Russian. Unfortunately the most efficient way to accomplish this is with Claudy dying of an overdose, something that doesn't sit well with Lorna even though she is indifferent to him at first. Eventually the reason for Lorna’s silence becomes apparent, just like the rest of the questions that this film poses – until everything grinds to a halt in an ending that no one can explain.