All that glitters is not gold, an old saying goes, and that is clear within seconds of glimpsing the seemingly glamorous yet morally corrupt reality inhabited by the broken American family of billionaires that serves as the beating heart of Karim Aïnouz's new satirical thriller, Rosebush Pruning.
No coveted mid-century modern furniture piece, sinuous sports car, or designer bag can hold together the saturated, sumptuous paper castle siblings Ed (Callum Turner), Anna (Riley Keough), Robert (Lukas Gage), and Jack (Jamie Bell) have built alongside their widowed father (Tracy Letts) with the money inherited from their deceased mother (Pamela Anderson), each nook in their sprawling Catalonia countryside villa a temple to their self-destructive vanity. Not that they aren't aware of that, either.
