Movie

Time of Roses

1969 · 111 min

A cerebral, melancholic sci-fi that blends media critique with a haunting, slow-burning meditation on memory and class.

Tagline: Risto Jarva's film about the future.
Overview: In the year 2012 historian Raimo Lappalainen wants to illustrate how life was 50 years earlier. He becomes obsessed with the fate of a 1970s nude model Saara Turunen, and finds a perfect actress to reconstruct her life and death in front of a TV camera. Meanwhile, a strike at a nuclear plant is covered up by the media.
How it feels: Melancholic, dark, satirical and tense. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
About: Memory, media, class, obsession
Content: Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
satiricalstrength 1 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: memory
media
class
obsession
identity
Places: big city
workplace
Era: near-future
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
unreliable narrator
ensemble
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild