Émilie Dequenne

Emilie Dequenne plays the lead in the Dardenne brothers' Rosetta. Lizzie Francke's review counts the performance strong enough to hurt and writes that a grace hides inside the character's feral toughness. The same piece passes on the litany the film has her recite to herself: my name is Rosetta, I have found a job, I have a friend, I have a normal life, I will not fall in a rut. It reads the heroine as a latterday Everywoman trying to stay upright in post-industrial Belgium, and describes her, once laid off, stripped of the white factory overall and going about in a red jacket, thick yellow tights and rubber boots. Of the twelve films held here, only this one has a page in the archive. She won the supporting actress Cesar in 2021 for Love Affair(s). The index carries a nominee line and a winner line for that same film and category, the two coming from two separate documents, so it is one award.