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Rosebush Pruning (2026)

Drama | 97 minutes
2,06 16 votes

Genre: Drama / Thriller

Duration: 97 minuten

Country: Germany / Italy / Spain / United Kingdom / United States

Directed by: Karim Aïnouz

Stars: Callum Turner, Riley Keough and Jamie Bell

IMDb score: 5,1 (2.548)

Releasedate: 14 February 2026

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Rosebush Pruning plot

"People are roses. Families are rosebushes. Rosebushes need pruning."

In a lavish villa under the Catalan sun, American siblings Jack, Ed, Anna, and Robert wallow in isolation and their inherited fortune. Ignoring their blind father's demands, they seek love and affirmation from each other and in their latest designer clothes. When Jack, the eldest brother and the heart of the family, announces he's moving in with his girlfriend, Martha, the blood ties are severed, and Ed begins to unravel the truth surrounding their mother's death. Generational lies are exposed, and the family's bond slowly begins to disintegrate.

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The film tells the story of the decadent heirs of an immensely wealthy family residing in a luxury villa in Spain. Three brothers, a sister, and their blind father. All possess strong psychopathological tendencies. They all feature in a tedious saga of luxury, decay, homicidal tendencies, and manipulation. Brother Edward is the narrator, sketching the relationships and characteristics of his family in a nonchalant tone and with a narcissistic disposition. I disliked him immediately.

Karim Aïnouz's film is an empty shell. A film that shows a bored bunch of people amusing themselves with uninteresting matters that are mostly linked to degeneration. Sexual, psychological, and moral. A film about people with an indifferent attitude towards everything. A film about people who throw themselves obscenely into material things and decadent pursuits just so they don't have to engage in meaningful endeavors, such as filling their inner emptiness, for example.

Visually not uninteresting. The bright and vibrant color scheme and the overexposed backgrounds contrast with the mental numbness of the characters. Visually, that emptiness is also evident in the soulless presentation of the setting, which is filled with luxury goods from which no one seems to derive pleasure. Not an inspiring sight, but certainly successful in the context of conveying the message.

Furthermore, the film features a string of well-known actors who portray rather listlessly, mostly caricatured characters in a state of privileged decay. It all interested me only moderately.

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scorsese

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Mediocre film about a rich and eccentric American family living in Spain.

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mrklm

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A filthy rich, blind father [Tracy Letts] lives with his four spoiled children in a house furnished as a monument to their mother [Pamela Anderson], who was supposedly torn apart by wolves. Incest is the order of the day. Hence, the arrival of Martha [Elle Fanning] as Jack's [Jamie Bell] lover causes quite a stir. A recurring joke about how a mix of toothpaste and semen results in white teeth illustrates the dismal level of the screenplay by Efthimis Filippou (The Lobster, The Killing Of A Sacred Deer). An impressive cast is wasted in this disastrous adaptation of Marco Belocchio's Fists In The Pocket (1965).

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