Tori y Lokita

...there is a simplicity and clarity of purpose here that I responded to and the Dardennes have got excellent performances from their young leads.

...its premise pulls tighter until even the simplest actions are endowed with breathless intensity.

...urgent, moving drama of young migrants in peril.

...a harrowing story of human trafficking in Belgium, centring on two young migrants.

Meticulously controlled, but simmering with a tension that is suffused with fury, this treatise on dignity and depravity, aspiration and apathy is the Dardennes at their most accusatory and damning.

Vi kommer tæt på, de filmiske greb fordufter, og vi føler empatien vokse for dem, vi har det med ikke at genkende noget i.

Det hele er grummere, end man næsten kan bære, men filmen er samtidig så suspensepræget, at man bliver elementært opslugt.