Rose's War

Rose Dugdale (Imogen Poots) rebels against her upper-crust English upbringing. She turns into a social agitator, social organizer, and finally a revolutionary. She tries to steal from her home for the IRA and her parents get her arrested. It's 1974. She leads three other men on a mission to steal valuable paintings and ransom them for four IRA prisoners.

The caper isn't much. More could be done to make that exciting. This is more about Rose's journey. It's her character study and that relies on Imogen Poots. Luckily, I really like her acting over these many years and she sells me on this character.

I struggled to get through this film. The actors did the best they could with the script, but the screen play seemed to drag and focused on the lead character's mental state too much. I recognize that the movie was about Rose Dugdale, but the film would have been more engaging and enjoyable if it centered on the heist itself. In fact, the movie's title was originally called Baltimore, which was the location of an IRA safe house. Had the story been centered more on Baltimore, and not capturing Rose Dugdales daily life, I may have liked it better. Unfortunately, I found myself bored and uninterested.

A great film dramatising real historical events! Imogen Poots is a genius actress and manages to speak English with a perfect French accent, as well as Aristocratic RP, in addition to some Irish Gaelic! We get great cinematography and production design! The story is told in a nice surreal way in a non-chronological order! One might say, this is a great example of modern day British/Irish nouvelle vague if the term can be applied to contemporary cinema. The film explores important topics and is steeped in left wing politics such as socialism, republicanism and feminism. It is delightful and it has minimal violence compared to most contemporary films, especially dealing with the IRA, which is probably the reason why not many people watched it. Adorable! Thank you, Imogen and the team!

I will be fair. The only reason I wanted to watch this film was because of Imogen Poots being in it as ive always liked films shes been in and her acting is my favourite that this film has to offer. She plays rose. A former hairess and someone that was married off to a guy when she was young. She never really enjoyed the privolleged life growing up and as result and the rising conflicts in irland it makes her side with them and turn to a rebelious side, the whole resulting in a raid on a mansion that we snippets of throightout. I think if they had done the raid as one piece it would have been better. Its a slow burner but does have something to offer, I just cant as a whole say that I overlly enjoyed this.

In '70s-based Irish true-tale "Rose's War" (aka "Baltimore") young English heiress Imogen Poots rebels against parents Carrie Crowley & Simon Coury to lend her active support to the IRA, leading Tom Vaughan-Lawlor (terrific), Lewis Brophy & Jack Meade in violently robbing a haul of valuable paintings from a stately home, before hiding out while trying to extract a ransom & prisoner release for them. Dermot Crowley offers solid support, and experienced co-writers / co-directors Christine Malloy & Joe Lawlor do chop the timeline cleverly - but it still comes across as only a relatively minor jigsaw puzzle piece in a much bigger picture. It is interesting, but not sensational.