Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's tale of Belgian misery stars Cannes Best Actress winner Emilie Dequenne (she looks like Irene Jacob's stocky sister) as the title heroine, who scurries from briefly held jobs to her trailer-park home where her alcoholic mom (Anne Yernaux) gives the ogre-ish superintendent blow jobs for booze. Rosetta, however, refuses to be a victim; ferocious and determined, she believes all she needs is a friend and a steady job, and fate offers her a choice between the two when she stops at a waffle stand. A controversial winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes and a ruthlessly efficient film, Rosetta is nonetheless pessimism without point. When the forces of dehumanization are so faceless and all-powerful and its victims so debased, tragedy becomes entomology.