Romy's Salon (2019) User Reviews

Young and Old

[Minnesota_Reid · 7/10 · 16 May 2022]

This is a good kid's movie, which is not my favorite genre. But this one avoids most of the usual kid-movie pitfalls. And it does cover an important topic, progressive old age dementia and could provide a useful gateway to talking about it with your kid, if relevant.

The child actor was very good, which is always a wild card in a kid's movie.

This is by no means a "must see", but it is much less painful to endure than most kid's movies.

Wauw

[owenlotte · 9/10 · 8 April 2020]

What a touching moving. Simply beautiful. Tears in my eyes.

Heart warming movie

[risatanikawajp · 9/10 · 20 October 2023]

Romy is such a bright girl, it's beautiful to see she was truly care her oma. I watched without subtitles to learn Dutch, so I didn't understand most of what they talked, however I did understand the storylines. Easy to watch and heart warming. I get emotional when Romy was just there for oma when she get upset with being examined for Alzheimer, she doesn't say much words but she was showing her love by act. The last scene when Romy's parents came and pick up Romy and oma, that made me think how important to have family who care about you and love you and be on your side. This movie made me miss my family especially my grandma.

Great beginning but second half drags and ends in mediocrity

[galahad26 · 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.