Wrenchingly powerful and heartbreakingly relevant, this intimate drama follows Rosie, a Dublin mother of four (Sarah Greene), as she struggles to keep her family safe and sheltered after they are made homeless. The bare-bones economy of the storytelling evokes the urgency of the Dardenne brothers’ Rosetta; the Kafkaesque bureaucracy calls to mind Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake. Written by Roddy Doyle, this is film-making infused with a righteous fury as cold as the film’s winter blue colour palette. Greene is terrific – her Rosie is a force of nature. When she cracks, briefly, under the strain, her voice is a raw blade cutting through the bubble of safety she has created but no longer believes in.
