From love to schizophrenia... In the secret penthouses of schizophrenia there is everything. Love included. In Rose, love caused a progressive disease. And it is not for nothing that Schopenhauer said that sung in art and irresistible it still conquers the voice of reason, no matter how stable it is and does not have the iron weight of pride. Another equally important concept of the film is male betrayal. In this context, the work acquires a taste of feminism, which is more a given for 2022.
Schizophrenic patient Inger on a trip to Paris is accompanied by her sister. She complains to her mother that traveling can be a therapeutic act. A tour bus loaded with tourists goes on the road, and everyone on board does not even suspect the ailment of one of the passengers. The secret is that Inger hopes to meet in the city of dreams the love of his youth served as a trigger for the disease.
Director Nils Oplev Honored Master of Danish Cinema. In the piggy bank he has a bear at the Berlin Film Festival, as well as the sensational “Girl with a dragon tattoo”. Conceived as a psychological drama, the tape maneuvers between genres, sometimes cautiously and clumsily climbing into comedy. This is due to the main character, humpback, clumsy, but with clear eyes Inger performed by Sophie Grobel. That is why the narrative manages to catch that sensual charm and comedic charm, which in the end does not allow it to slide into the plane of a thick drama about love and betrayal.
Idealizing all Paris is represented by the handiwork through which, like through dark glasses, Inger tries to find the roots of his madness. The film begins as an ordinary road trip pendulum swings from psychedelia to arthouse. Cinema gives a kind of smile and of course hope without which it is difficult to imagine works of this kind.
The light of pure reason, like an enclave amidst the dark substance of the coming chaos, will surely conquer death. And even love, which turned out to be a betrayal and does not taste honey at all, soars like a majestic bird and, together with the memories of youth, gives much more important than the pain inherent in reality. Inger is struggling. She's stronger than she seems, and every step she takes is a new decision that, along with sensitivity, has incredible power. Of course, everyone has to survive.
In spite of all the twists and turns of life.