Bajo la Rosa (2017) User Reviews

And the winner is... SPAIN!

[PAULO-TEIXEIRA-1977 · 7/10 · 1 April 2020]

Spanish directors have given a huge leap in the past 10/15 years in regards to movies, especially the Thriller genre. Hollywood has a steady rival in Spainwood!

Great photography, simple but extremely original and well developed plots, excellent actings and absolute tense moments make this, along with several other Spanish thrillers, a great and pleasurable movie to watch.

Not advancing much of the story, a family's daughter disappears and a stranger seems to be the lead to bring her home. However, things won't be as easy as they seem, and a lot of uncomfortable moments will pop out like popcorn, one after another. Yes! This movie intends to be uncomfortably macabre; on purpose. And while we'd swear never to agree with the scenes before us, we'd never knew we'd be so close to aprove them in the end! Worth a try for thriller lovers.

Everyone has secrets..

[karlytus · 7/10 · 21 April 2020]

Very good plot and excellent performances. The soundtrack could have added another star, as well as photography. For those who like films that portray the reality, this is a must-see film. The end took away his last star .. 7/10 a movie to watch!

psychological torture of a family

[deenailene · 1/10 · 12 November 2017]

I agree completely with kire1975. This was a kind of sadism porn. I felt sick seeing it, and dirty after leaving the theater because I had taken part in its showing by being in the audience. It was part of a film festival, and I'm amazed they showed it.

I'm not a prude either, and not usually judgmental at all. But this was a sick film, sick at its core. And not even that slick. I think I get the point - but the point is sick, too. What were they thinking?...

One of the best Spanish films in a long time

[kafkiano-46204 · 9/10 · 21 November 2017]

It's been several days since I saw "Bajo la rosa" and I still can't get it out of my head. The film entrap you completely within an intriguing and disturbing plot at the same time, where actors shine in a state of grace. Especially Ramiro Blas.

The film begins with the kidnapping of a girl, but this element is only the excuse to question the life of a family in the most surprising ways, advancing in crescendo until reaching a cathartic ending. A masterpiece script.

Honestly, it has been a long time since a movie impacted me like that, plus being a debut and counting with only 4 actors and a house. Without a doubt, Josué Ramos is a director to follow.

Mean spirited, sexually motivated torture porn

[funnyfaceking · 1/10 · 12 November 2017]

The film festival I saw this at advertised as a "crime thriller." If it could be called that, it's only because that's the pretext to get a creepy man inside a family home where he can torture the father, rape the mother and molest the hell out of an underage son. And the filmmakers did it with such glee, I'm surprised nobody is reporting the main profile poster for depicting an underage model in a sexual situation. If I had known that this was going to be torture porn on the level of Human Centipede or A Serbian Film, I would have spared myself real trauma.

Don't get me wrong. I'm no prude. I hate censorship as much as anyone. But if somebody's going to show this somewhere, they should at least give a warning more than "sexual situation." Sex is different from rape, rape, rape all the way through this film. It makes no sense that it actually won an award somewhere.

Amazing

[cannibalcorpse-23503 · 8/10 · 22 November 2020]

Der Film beginnt mit der Entführung eines Mädchens, aber dieses ist nur der Anfang einer spannenden Story, um das Leben einer Familie auf überraschendste Weise infrage zu stellen, ein Wirklich tolles Drehbuch. Was der Regisseur mit einer Handvoll Darsteller und als Schauplatz nur ein Haus gezaubert hat ist der Wahnsinn, vor allem wenn man bedenkt, dass es sein Erstling ist. Mich hat die Story von Anfang an gepackt und bis zum Ende war der Film wirklich Spannend. Die Schauspieler verdienen ein großes Lob vor allem Ramiro Blas fand ich einfach super, was er allein durch seinen Blick hier Schaft ist der Wahnsinn, dazu kommt ein toller Soundtrack. Ein Film den ich nur weiterempfehlen kann.

Von mir 8/10

Crap!

[Ebert · 1/10 · 29 July 2021]

A movie for psychopaths, made by a psychopath. Trash! Don't waste your time seeing this crap.

Good minimilazed movie..!!

[kamalbeeee · 8/10 · 25 September 2021]

A mystery guy enters into a family after kidnapping their younger daughter..then he order them to confess their sins...finally the kidnapped daughter's dad did unforgivable sin and he decided to give punishment for that... Good story and screenplay..!!

And the climax would be unimgineable.. Must watch movie..!!

One of the best movies of the decade !

[fcauneau · 10/10 · 6 April 2019]

Sure, this is a chef d'oeuvre. The scenario is of a rare quality, and the actor's play deserves such a compliment. Bajo la Rosa is somewhere between "Theorem" of Pier Paolo Pasolini, and "Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie" of Luis Bunuel. Bajo la Rosa retrieves the complexity and the mastership of the times when great european masters were able to make true Art on screen. Besides the depicts of the lies that lurk behind a model family life, the author drives the characters toward a surrealistic level : the mysterious visitor of the night acts as the angel of Pasolini, and the familly members are progressively extracted from the daily reality to a nightmare that could be the gates of a Doomsday...

Very very Good Movie!!

[luis-ferreras · 10/10 · 7 January 2019]

Wow muy buena historia y pelicula!!!!

Highly recommended movie. Incredible history!!!!

Secrets

[JMS25 · 8/10 · 26 May 2020]

This one will take your breath away. A child is kidnapped. Who is the monster? Watch this one if you dare.