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...White Rose?? opens in Nazi Germany, as brother and sister Sophie (played by Zoe K. Kawaller ’09) and Hans Scholl (Benjamin Curley) launch Resistance flyers from a University of Munich balcony. But the siblings can take no time to admire their papers as they float into the hands of curious students passing by, because they are immediately caught by the Gestapo...
...action thereafter is driven almost purely by dialogue. Sophie, Hans, and other student members calling themselves a part of “The White Rose?? are interrogated at the Gestapo headquarters, where the slimy, power-hungry officer Mahler (Jeremy R. Steinemann ’08) persuades reluctant Gestapo Chief Mohr (W. Brian C. Polk ’09) to hold the captives indefinitely. Mohr, in fact, stays true to his promise and does not let his prisoners go free...
...Rose??s thinning patience for her sister finally snaps when one day, Maggie has sex with Rose??s lover, which Rose discovers, precipitating an angry fight. Maggie packs her trash bag of designer clothes and moves in with their grandmother (Shirley MacLaine) in Florida, who we discover has been living in a retirement center, though thought dead by the sisters for many years. The sisters’ icy feud forces them to develop independently, enabling each to learn more about themselves...
...implausible as the plot may occasionally seem, the director manages to suspend our disbelief through the charisma of the flamboyant Maggie and the more somber Rose. Collette masterfully brings Rose??s internal transformation to the surface—in her struggle to open up emotionally, she reveals herself to the audience, with brighter smiles, a more confident gait, and a simple abandonment of camera-consciousness. The result is a maturely developed character, deserving of our empathy (who doesn’t relate to bouts of ice cream-filled self-deprecation...
Maggie also changes, though her shift is less convincing. She receives, as if from the screenwriting gods, a latent analytic mastery of poetry, but she remains the carefree and floozy younger sister; her mischievous glances towards Rose??s fiancé leave us skeptical of how much she has actually learned by film’s end. Diaz nonetheless has fun in her typecast role as the blonde bombshell, and we have fun with her as she exposes her grandmother’s friends to “Sex and the City” and bungles a dog-washing...