A 50-something man wanders a lonely beach drinking and thinking of a friend he has just lost. Strange how the young man that he meets is so similar.
The story is a moving sentiment of letting go of the past and putting trust and faith into others. Though you come into this world alone, surrounding yourself with others that support you and want to help is the greatest gift life could ever give.
The Roses is a wickedly sharp marital warfare comedy that transforms domestic dysfunction into high art. Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch deliver powerhouse performances as a couple whose fairy-tale romance implodes when his architectural career collapses just as her culinary empire takes off. What makes Jay Roach's remake so devastatingly effective is its refusal to pick sides—both spouses are equally sympathetic and monstrous, wielding Tony McNamara's razor-sharp dialogue like weapons forged from shared intimacies. It's a film that dares you to laugh at relationship wreckage while forcing you to confront the uncomfortable truth that the line between passionate love and mutual destruction is terrifyingly thin.
How powerful can a story be when it is stripped to the bare essentials of just a room, a handful of people and raw human voice?
Set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow era, the film offers layered representation.
A film about family and sacrifice... and carnivorous locusts coming after you.
We have a long way to go with LGBT representation in film, especially when it comes to LGBT characters of color and trans characters.
