galahad26 Review of Romy's Salon

Romy's Salon (2019)

Great beginning but second half drags and ends in mediocrity

[5/10 · 24 August 2020]

Kapsalon Romy starts out very good. You can feel the director knows how to tell a story and the performances are really good and subtle. Especially Romy, the girl is well directed. The tone and build up of the story are also good - subtle hints to where the film might go and a potential danger the girl might be blamed for stealing money from cash machine. And then it doesn't happen. All very good. But once Alzheimer disease starts to come to the fore the film becomes more and more of a cliche and the film starts to drag. The film seems endless and the film ends exactly the way you'd expect. The film tries to put the emphasis on small human drama, but the audience is not moved at all in the end and the second half of the film is just boring. The trip to Denmark is the equivalent of the cliche to show the sea for the last time to someone who is dying. Once they get off the boat in Denmark grandma Stine immediately meets someone she knows - which is quite uncredible on a population of 5.7M people. There's also the question for who this film is intended. Children won't enjoy the film as it is a film about someone who's falling ill. Adults will think it's a children film because of the child's perspective. As the issue is central, this seems to be foremost a TV-film.