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Rose Plays Julie

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Ireland · 2021
1h 40m
Director Joe Lawlor, Christine Molloy
Starring Ann Skelly, Orla Brady, Aidan Gillen, Annabell Rickerby
Genre Drama, Thriller

She was given the name Rose by her adoptive parents, but her birth certificate says otherwise. Now a university student in Dublin, Rose sets off for London to find her biological mother, the woman who named her Julie at birth.

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The Film Stage by Jared Mobarak

Get ready for a tense ride because writers/directors Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor’s Rose Plays Julie never relinquishes its sense of brooding until the very last frame’s welcome exhale of relief.

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Variety by Jessica Kiang

The most disturbing thing about the impressively disturbing Rose Plays Julie may just be how satisfying it is.

60

The New York Times by Kristen Yoonsoo Kim

Amid the lush greenery of the setting, the atmosphere is perpetually bone-chilling — complete with an ominously high-pitched score — making the film seem distant and difficult to fully embrace

100

CineVue by Martyn Conterio

Its emotional dilemmas, depictions of trauma, revenge and fractured family ties are handled with such skill and sense of purpose, it is truly exemplary film-making.

80

Screen Daily by Nikki Baughan

Layering its fairly straightforward story of an adopted Irish girl who tracks down her birth mother with immersive visual and aural motifs, it plays more like modern operatic tragedy than run-of-the-mill social drama.

75

Original-Cin by Thom Ernst

The film is strong enough in performance and direction to survive any discrepancies between the social drama it begins as with the revenge thriller it becomes. Still, Rose Plays Julie's sudden turn of events feels like an intrusion on a better story.

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