Rosie Movie Review 1999

Rosie (Coppens) is 13 and is first seen living in an institution for delinquents. Her desperate story is told in flashbacks as the girl grows up in industrial Antwerp in a cramped apartment with her mother, Irene (de Roo), who insists Rosie say they are sisters when men come to visit, which they do frequently. When her moocher Uncle Michel (Vercruyssen) arrives, Rosie is even kicked out of her bedroom. It's no wonder she escapes into a romantic dreamworld she shares with a would-be boyfriend, Jimi (Wijnant), and the dangerous turn her real life takes. Flemish with subtitles.

Distribution

New Yorker Video, 16 W. 61st St., 11th Fl., New York, NY 10023, Phone: (212)645-4600, Toll-free: 800-447-0196, Fax: (212)645-3030, Email: info@newyorkerfilms.com, URL: http://www.newyorkerfilms.com

Available on VHS
Running time 97 minutes.
Originally from Belgian.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Teen Angst, Flashback

Screenplay

Patrice Toye

Cast

Aranka Coppens, Sara de Roo, Joost Wijnant, Frank Vercruyssen

Cinematography

Richard Van Oosterhout

Director

Patrice Toye

Music

John Parish