The very first glimpse of Karim Aïnouz’s long-gestating “Rosebush Pruning” is a daring title card in shiny pink and yellow. The 2 colours information the story’s visible language, quietly and persistently evoking the previous Karl Marx quote: “Capital comes dripping from head to foot, from each pore, with blood and grime.”
Surrounded by years of hypothesis and following a sequence of recasts and delays, “Rosebush Pruning” arrived on the prestigious Berlin Movie Competition underneath a good shroud of secrecy.