L-r: Lene Maria Christensen as Ellen, Sofie Grabol as Inger, and Anders W. Berthelsen as Ellen’s husband, in the Danish film Rose. photo: Martin Dam Kristensen/Nordisk Film. Courtesy of Game Theory
The subtitled Danish dramedy Rose features an award-worthy performance from its star, elevating what could have been treacly melodrama. It’s often said that leading roles with some sort of disability provide Oscar bait. But that doesn’t always work out as well as it does here. For example, the Campbell Scott vehicle Dying Young still annoys me whenever I think about it, even though it’s been over 30 years since I sat through the thing.
Sofie Grabol stars as Inger, a schizophrenic woman living with, and closely monitored by, her parents. We learn that her condition was one of adult onset, with progressive insights into possible causative factors from her backstory. But when her sister Ellen...
The subtitled Danish dramedy Rose features an award-worthy performance from its star, elevating what could have been treacly melodrama. It’s often said that leading roles with some sort of disability provide Oscar bait. But that doesn’t always work out as well as it does here. For example, the Campbell Scott vehicle Dying Young still annoys me whenever I think about it, even though it’s been over 30 years since I sat through the thing.
Sofie Grabol stars as Inger, a schizophrenic woman living with, and closely monitored by, her parents. We learn that her condition was one of adult onset, with progressive insights into possible causative factors from her backstory. But when her sister Ellen...
- 11/15/2023
- by Mark Glass
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Sofie Gråbøl as Inger (based on Maren Elisabeth) and Lene Maria Christensen as Ellen (based on Kirsten) in Rose Photo: Martin Dam Kristensen
A warm-hearted, often comedic drama which centres on a coach trip to Paris, Niels Arden Oplev’s latest film, Rose, is his most deeply personal work to date. it’s based on incidents in the lives of his two older sisters: Maren Elisabeth, who is schizophrenic, and Kirsten, who has been her lifelong carer. There’s much more to the two of them than that, of course, and it’s that which makes the film so unusual. We are all used to negative depictions of mental illness in cinema. Here it’s just one aspect of life – a challenging one, but one that doesn’t overwhelm the richness of their other experiences or the importance of their bond.
“I know that most times in cinema, mental illness...
A warm-hearted, often comedic drama which centres on a coach trip to Paris, Niels Arden Oplev’s latest film, Rose, is his most deeply personal work to date. it’s based on incidents in the lives of his two older sisters: Maren Elisabeth, who is schizophrenic, and Kirsten, who has been her lifelong carer. There’s much more to the two of them than that, of course, and it’s that which makes the film so unusual. We are all used to negative depictions of mental illness in cinema. Here it’s just one aspect of life – a challenging one, but one that doesn’t overwhelm the richness of their other experiences or the importance of their bond.
“I know that most times in cinema, mental illness...
- 11/14/2023
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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