Kawasaki's Rose
Release Date: November 24, 2010 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
67
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 6 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
Village VoiceNick SchagaerNov 25, 2010
Performed and directed with assured elegance, Kawasaki's Rose is a film that recognizes life as a tumultuous mess of both noble and base intensions and actions, as well as one that understands the thorny tragedies such chaos often leaves in its wake. Read full review
80
The New York TimesA.O. ScottNov 25, 2010
The point of this thoughtful, moving film is that the motives and actions that define human ethics are never simple and that the Communist regime was especially adept at exploiting this complexity for its own ends. Read full review
70
NPRMark JenkinsNov 29, 2010
Kawasaki's Rose is the first Czech or Slovak film to address the issue of collaboration with the former Czechoslovakia's bygone secret police. That history must still be raw for some who survived the era, as it is in "The Lives of Others." Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayNov 25, 2010
The problem with Kawasaki's Rose is that the theme is far more compelling than the movie. Read full review
60
Time OutDavid FearNov 25, 2010
Such overall familiarity makes the over-the-top soap-operatic elements, such as a histrionic screamathon between mom and daughter, that much more grating-and Hrebejk's upending of cathartic clichés that much more gratifying. Read full review
50
New York PostV.A. MusettoNov 27, 2010
The longer director Jan Hrebejk's film goes on, the more complex the relationships become, until the film becomes little more than a talkathon. Read full review
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