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Rose Plays Julie


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🎙️ EPISODE 599: 11.16.22

It's been awhile since I've reviewed a movie with a really promising start and an original and engaging premise/setup that went off the rails so far and so hard. And, as usual, I can forgive its overall, unapologetic A24 vibes. But at a point, this morphs into a very boilerplate and very boring revenge film. The idea of an adopted child searching for and finding their birth mother (an actress) and then adopting the "role" of their birth name as they confront the mother who has another child just a few years younger and generally wants nothing to do with them is interesting. I'm not at all sure if it was intentional, but the first act paints this character (Rose) as a bit of a tortured psycho. At first, the pivot from a conflict about a mother giving up a daughter to one about a rapist father (insert patriarchy here etc., why not) didn't lose me. It's the complete lack of nuance or care with which the remainder of the story is told that's the issue. It becomes yet another "victims must destroy The Bad Man™" plot. Enough already.


CHRONOLOGICALLY
⫷ EPISODE 598 - (YOU ARE HERE) - EPISODE 600 ⫸

Rose Plays Julie is a 2019 Irish drama film made by creative partnership Desperate Optimists (Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor). Rose Plays Julie premiered at the London Film Festival in 2019 and was released in UK cinemas by New Wave Films in 2021. It was released on October 3, 2019.

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