Rose Plays Julie is a 2019 Irish drama film written and directed by Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor, known collectively as Desperate Optimists.

Finding that Ellen's house is for sale, Rose calls the estate agent posing as a potential buyer wanting to view the property.

She later volunteers on an archeological dig led by Peter, wearing a black wig over her red hair and pretending to be an actress named Julie researching for a role as an archeologist.

She manages to get hold of a golfing award on the shelf and hits him over the head with it, then pulls the syringe from her jacket to find that it has broken; she shouts at Peter and reveals she is his daughter before fleeing, leaving him dazed and bloodied.

[1] Film critic Sheila O'Malley has written of the "mythic" nature of the story and the "eerie" quality of Rose Plays Julie, something she describes as being not just a stylistic choice but also "an accurate depiction of the dissociative states of the three main characters, who move through their worlds like somnambulists".

[2] Jessica Kiang in Variety also highlighted the connections with myth alongside the contemporary relevance of the film, describing it as "a transgressive story [that] bides its time.

It's a tale that feels ancient in structure, but terrifyingly modern in detail, mapping #MeToo-era revelations and a contemporary preoccupation with fractured identities onto a deceptively simple revenge plot that could have been plucked directly from a Greek drama, then plunged into liquid nitrogen to achieve its deep-freeze aesthetic.