Rose Plays Julie

Film Movement | Release Date (Streaming): March 19, 2021

5.3	USER SCORE Mixed or average reviews based on 13 Ratings

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WulfstenSep 29, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This is an extremely mannered, stylised film. The people in it don't feel like real people, and they don't talk like real people. They are archetypes, gliding around the grim Irish and British settings on inevitable collision courses. The film also doesn't really try to present any twists or unexpected developments - if you saw the trailer you will know exactly how the film will go. The subject matter is upsetting, but the subtext essentially boils down to the idea that being raped (or being the product of rape) is nothing to be ashamed of, and that rapists should probably be put down like animals. It's not even really a revenge thriller because it doesn't seem particularly interested in the texture or consequences of revenge - again, this is all presented as an inevitable resolution. That said, it's almost worth the price of admission just to see a few scenes where Ann Skelly's rage and hurt breaks through the general torpor of her performance.… Expand

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JLuis_001Mar 28, 2021

This was a sober and cold movie. Very cold.

A dark psychological thriller that at first seems like a search for identity, and ends up becoming a story about confronting old wounds, fear, abuse, reckoning and ultimately assimilation. TheThis was a sober and cold movie. Very cold.

A dark psychological thriller that at first seems like a search for identity, and ends up becoming a story about confronting old wounds, fear, abuse, reckoning and ultimately assimilation.

The story centers on Rose (Ann Skelly), a young veterinary student who was adopted and is in search of her biological parents.

She manages to get in touch with her mother Ellen (Orla Brady) but she had given indications that she did not want to have contact with Rose. However, she doesn't give up and eventually through mutual interruptions in their private spaces both end up developing a kind of relationship that ends up delving into a darker subject that involves the biological father; Peter (Aiden Gillen).

What follows, to a certain extent is intuited, but that doesn't mean the film is predictable, but that the extension of a trauma for one of the characters, becomes a terrible situation that will cause the union of mother and daughter in a way which will eventually provide them with a future that neither of them expected, or at least I didn't expected.

Directed by two directors, Rose Plays Julie certainly takes inspiration from filmmakers like Yorgos Lanthimos and Michael Haneke, but only that, inspiration.
Both build a slow paced and gloomy film, yet not impenetrable.

The tone is essential because it collides with the tone of the performances, and although there were some contemplative moments that I personally don't think were of much use, the film remains good.

Pretty good option.… Expand

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