5 Mar 2025
Director: Niels Arden Oplev
Denmark
2023
106 min
Best known for directing the original film version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Niels Arden Oplev teams up with another Scandi screen star, Sofie Grabol, for his most personal film to date. A story of two sisters, it’s based on his own family history and full of feeling. Set in the late ‘90s, it sees sisters Ellen and Inger take a bus trip to Paris. Inger is schizophrenic, a fact she announces to their fellow passengers. Ellen sees their holiday as a chance for the sisters to bond and to find out if Inger might be able to live more independently. Inger herself has a hidden agenda for the trip. Eloquent on the stigmas faced by those with mental illness, Rose is also committed to honesty about the difficulty of living with profound disorders like schizophrenia. There are no easy answers in this subtle, heartfelt, funny and involving drama, which features an excellent performance from Grabol in particular.