'Rosetta'

Rosetta is the triumph of the Dardenne brothers, Jean-Pierre and Luc. It is a sad story of a 17-year-old Rosetta who lives in a trailer park with her alcoholic mother, who's barely keeping anything together without the watchful eye of her oddly faithful daughter.

Rosetta has to hold the hand of her mother, deal with a fascist trailer park owner, catch fish in a local pond and attempt to keep a job despite her hot temper.

Emotionally complex, Rosetta's frustrations with joblessness, poverty and the idea that there will never be hope boil over and she joins the dog-eat-dog world of capitalism when she betrays a young man who had actually helped her early in the film.

Shortly after the film was released a law was passed to protect the rights of young workers like Rosetta. Although the law was already in the works before the film came out, it was called the "Rosetta Law" anyway.

The film won the Palme d'Or at Cannes proving to be the pinnacle of their careers for the time being. The oddest factoid being that despite the success of the film in the 1990s and the subject matter dealing with young adults, the Dardenne brothers were into their 40s when Rosetta was made and released.