Episode 4

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29th Sep 2021

Rosetta (1999 Cannes Palme d’Or Winner)

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).

Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1999 installment, featuring our documentary pick, Wim Wenders’ Buena Vista Social Club.

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Awesome Movie Year is a podcast co-hosted by film critic Josh Bell and filmmaker and comedian Jason Harris. Each season looks at why a certain year was an awesome movie year. Each episode focuses on a different film from the year being investigated. Produced by David Rosen of the Piecing It Together Podcast for the All Points West Podcast Network
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