He arrives on Disney+ from 3 December as in the rest of the world, I Roses a comedy produced by Searchlight Pictures, written by Tony McNamara (Povere Creature!, La Favorita) and directed by Jay Roach (Bombshell-The voice of the scandal, Austin Powers). Of course, if you are thinking that the surname you have already heard of, you are not mistaken, the film is the adaptation of Warren Adler’s novel published by Mondadori, already brought to the cinema directed by Danny De Vito with Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner in 1989 with the title La Guerra dei Roses.
The protagonists of the film I Roses are Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch, flanked by a group of non-stars such as Andy Samberg (Palm Springs-Vivi as if there were no tomorrow, Vite da popstar), the award Oscar® Allison Janney (Tonya), Belinda Bromilow (The Great), Sunita Mani (GLOWbagins), Ncuti Gatwa (Barbie, Doctor WhoFlea), Jamie Demetriou.
I Roses, la trama del 2025
New adaptation or remake that both I Roses tells the story of a marriage in crisis, which we see both in its stages of development and during its collapse. Ivy and Theo are a couple in love, seemingly they have the perfect successful career life, a loving marriage, fantastic children. But under the facade of their supposed ideal life, a storm is about to unleash: While Theo’s career falls and Ivy’s ambitions take off, a fierce competition and hidden resentment duster is lit.
I Roses Photo by Jaap Buitendijk, Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures. © 2025 Searchlight Pictures All Rights Reserved.
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The Roses is a well-written comedy, well-recited and definitely pleasant to see. The film extremizes the life of a couple composed of two strong personalities who seek to impress their identity on family life. The Roses begins by immediately showing us the crisis now exploded, banging cruel truth and rivalry in the face of a psychologist, then returning to the origins. The story of their lives is marked by a series of fortuitous and unexpected circumstances that distort their existence. But the fate can open different paths, it is then the different protagonists to understand what they want to go.
The film poses a crucial question to the public: is love able to make the differences forget? The life of couple is made of compromises, in the management of children, in the working dynamics, but until what point can be reached before compromise becomes resentment?
Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch confirm that they are two of the best actors in circulation, able to grant a spectrum of different shades to the characters they interpret. Their characters are real, credible people, you can really feel their repressed anger, the discomfort that hides behind a smile but also the exact opposite when frustration turns into disillusionment.
I Roses Photo by Jaap Buitendijk, Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures. © 2025 Searchlight Pictures All Rights Reserved.
Extraordinary the couple formed by Andy Samberg and Kate McKinnon, as well as all other non-stars, including children. But the strength of the Roses is formed by Colman-Cumberbatch, a couple who could recite anything by turning it into an unmissable jewel. But I Roses behind the facade of a funny, brilliant comedy, at the edge of the Pharisee, proposes a reflection on couples, on the role of man and woman, on the difficulty of managing differences within a couple.
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