Red Roses and Petrol

Relatives you may want to shun

If, as Tolstoy observed, happy families are alike, and each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, the Dublin-set film "Red Roses and Petrol" didn't get the message, being a dysfunctional clan movie that feels dispiritingly like all the others.
It starts with an Irish patriarch's death -- that of college professor Enda Doyle ( Malcolm McDowell) -- and moves toward a scandalously unattended wake in which his widow (Olivia Tracey) and three grown children air resentments, suspicions and secrets about Enda's influence on the family. [...]

di Robert Abele, articolo completo (1352 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 27 giugno 2008