ANDY HEDGECOCK relishes two exhibitions that blur the boundaries between art and community engagement
Film round-up: June 27, 2024
The Star's critic MARIA DUARTE reviews Rose, Horizon: An American Saga Chapter One, Kinds of Kindness and A Quiet Place: Day One
The Star's critic MARIA DUARTE reviews I Am Martin Parr, September Says, The Monkey, and The Gorge
RITA DI SANTO applauds a touching and witty opener that touches a hot topic in Germany: the future of the immigrant population
SIMON PARSONS is discomfited by an unflichingly negative portrait of motherhood and its trials
PAUL FOLEY recommends an extraordinary double bill that packs a punch and leaves you reeling
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a play about AI that results in a deadening disconnect for its audience
SIMON PARSONS applauds an insightful state-of-the-nation play that explores the growing class divide in South Africa
Rose (12A)
Directed by Niels Arden Oplev
★★★★
THIS beautifully drawn-out road-trip comedy drama provides a refreshing and uplifting perspective on mental illness in writer-director Niels Arden Oplev’s most personal film to date.
It is based and inspired by Oplev’s (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) two sisters and his brother-in-law. It is set in the late summer of 1997 in the wake of Princess Diana’s death and unfolds over the course of a week as Ellen (Lene Maria Christensen) and her husband Vagn (Anders W Berthelsen) take her sister Inger (Sofie Grabol) on a coach journey from Denmark to Paris.
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