Needle POINT
Mar 10, 2020
4 minutes
WORDS & INTERVIEW BY PHILIPPA SNOW
ILLUSTRATION BY ALICE CARNEGIE
TYPE BY LOLO
In Rose Plays Julie, sexual trauma is hereditary, a curse passed on by bad men and handed down by injured, furious women. It is not strictly a horror film, although much of what transpires is reasonably horrific: cool, dilatory and clean, the action unfolds like a nightmare. Rose, a young veterinary college student, goes in search of her birth-mother, a popular TV actress, and learns that she was surrendered for adoption because she had been the product of a rape.
The real name on her birth certificate is “Julie” – an alias she adopts in order to
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