2020 · comedy · adventure · political
Rose Island
Directed by Sydney Sibilia2h 0m2020
In 1968, engineer Giorgio Rosa established the independent state called "The Isle of Roses" off the coast of Rimini, built on a platform outside the territorial waters, with Esperanto as the official language. The Italian authorities did not take it well because the micronation was seen as an expedient to not pay taxes on the revenues obtained thanks to the arrival of numerous tourists and curious people.
Our read: Rose Island (2020) reads as a warm, breathless, grounded comedy · adventure · political entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, breathless, gentle comedy / adventure, grounded in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
- gentle
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