High On Films’s review published on Letterboxd:
‘I feel like I want to strangle you.’ This line, told by the ‘Rose’ main character, Inger (Sofie Gråbøl), who stars in Niels Arden Oplev’s (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, 2009) latest drama, perfectly captures the balance between the tender and the anguish the film wants to convey -most of the times succeeding in its small-scale version of the events, but at times inadequate in its grand explanations. ‘Rose’ is the cinematic narration of a 1997 summer bus trip from Denmark to Paris. The middle-aged Inger, now a schizophrenic patient, had once visited the country in her youth and fallen in love – we learn that love failure was detrimental to her condition.