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2024-03-011h 38m

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Heiress. Rebel. Revolutionary.

Based on actual events that took place on 26 April 1974, former debutante turned IRA member Rose Dugdale and three comrades carried out an armed raid on Russborough House, Wicklow, in which nineteen masterpieces were stolen in an effort to support the IRA’s armed struggle. The film plays out over the course of the days following the raid, when Rose is in hiding in a remote cottage.

Directors
Christine Molloy, Joe Lawlor
Writters
Christine Molloy, Joe Lawlor
Editors
Christine Molloy, Joe Lawlor, Christine Molloy

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  1. Imogen Poots

    Imogen Poots

    Rose Dugdale

  2. Jack Meade

    Jack Meade

    Eddie Gallagher

  3. Tom Vaughan-Lawlor

    Tom Vaughan-Lawlor

    Dominic

  4. Lewis Brophy

    Lewis Brophy

    Martin

  5. Dermot Crowley

    Dermot Crowley

    Donal

  6. John Kavanagh

    John Kavanagh

    Sir Alfred Beit

  7. Andrea Irvine

    Andrea Irvine

    Lady Beit

  8. Flynn Gray

    Flynn Gray

    Patrick

  9. Carrie Crowley

    Carrie Crowley

    Rose's Mother

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CinemaSerf

Mar 26, 2024

6/10

Compelled to be presented to the Queen as a debutante in return for an Oxford University education, Rose Dugdale (Imogen Poots) rebels from a fairly early age. Her privileged upbringing - as so often happens - leads her to detest the very hands that fed her in her childhood. Meantime, the troubles in Northern Ireland in the early 1970s are only increasing and after a trip to a training camp in Cuba, she returns a fully capable, bomb-making, terrorist - with a brain and a conscience. A plot is devised to rob a stately home of some valuable Goya, Rubens and Vermeer paintings and hold them as hostage for £500,000 and the freedom of two hunger striking IRA prisoners incarcerated in the UK. What now ensues is a rather weekly constructed speculation as to just how this shrewd plan was executed and of the aftermath. The story is an interesting history - but with the timelines dancing around all over the place and the performance of Poots a bit hit or miss, I found the pace of the film too bitty. We are all too often left dangling when a storyline is being developed and talking of development, there is very little to inform us about who the real Dugdale was. The screenplay doesn't shy away from describing the radicalisation here nor of some of it's concomitant brutality but somehow her vitriolic detestation of the British state is left completely unexplained. This subject could make for a strong political documentary on a woman who was clearly dedicated to her cause, but as a drama - this doesn't ever really engage.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$2,500,000.00
Revenue
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Keywords
1970sbased on true storyheistira (irish republican army)