Romy's Salon

[Plays 5/14 at 11:15 p.m. and 5/16 at 1:45 p.m. as well as virtually as part of the MSPIFF41 Film Festival running May 5-19; for more information, log on to MSPfilm.org for full schedule.] While her hardworking waitress mother (Noortje Herlaar) works at truck stop restaurant and has divorced her father (Guido Pollemans), who is living with his girlfriend (Markoesa Hamer), in Misha Kamp's poignant, award-winning, well-acted, down-to-earth, moving, 90-minute, 2019 film based on Tamara Bos' novel, a 10-year-old Dutch girl (Vita Heijmen) is reluctant to stay after school with her eccentric, forgetful, 69-year-old, Danish hairdresser grandmother (Beppie Melissen) who owns an in-the-red hair salon, but she soon realizes that she must care for her granny due to her progressive Alzheimer's disease and struggles to cope with her feelings as the dementia worsens.
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