Movie review: Guilt fuels 'Unknown Girl'
by By Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
Sep 19, 2017
4 minutes
When we first meet Jenny Davin (Adele Haenel), the smart, uncompromising young doctor who occupies every frame of Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's "The Unknown Girl," she is seeing a patient at the end of a long day at her clinic. A routine examination is interrupted by a sudden emergency in the waiting room, and even after the crisis is averted and the last of the patients have gone home, Jenny and her intern, Julien (Olivier Bonnaud), are tired, frustrated and on each other's last nerves.
When the door buzzes, she orders him not to answer it - a directive that feels
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