The Star's critic MARIA DUARTE recommends an impressive impersonation of Bob Dylan
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 Here, Vermiglio, William Tell and Wolf Man
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Emphasising his continuous engagement in labour movement struggles, ALISTAIR FINDLAY salutes John Foster’s contribution as activist, strategist, intellectual and defender of the Morning Star
ANDY MIAH advocates the use of AI to assist people by expanding access to global literature and culture
EWAN KOTZ relishes a veteran Glasgow band that have lost none of their verve for live performance
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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