JAMES WALSH is moved by an exhibition of graphic art that relates horrors that would be much less immediate in other media
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

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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