Baltimore

Baltimore is a 2023 thriller film directed by Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy. It is based on the life of Rose Dugdale, an heiress-turned-IRA member, played by Imogen Poots. The film premiered at the 50th Telluride Film Festival on 1 September 2023. Plot Rose Dugdale is former debutante who left England to become a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army. In April 1974, she leads an art heist in Russborough House, the home of Sir Alfred Beit. Cast Imogen Poots as Rose Dugdale Jude McClean as young Rose Jack Meade as Eddie Gallagher Tom Vaughan-Lawlor as Dominic Lewis Brophy as Martin Patrick Martins as Walter Dermot Crowley as Donal John Kavanagh as Sir Alfred Beit Andrea Irvine as Lady Beit Flynn Gray as Patrick Martha Breen as Sophie Carrie Crowley as Rose's Mother Simon Coury as Rose's Father Vanessa Ifediora as Alice Molly Rose Lawlor as Lizzie Ciaran McKenna as Albert Price Reception Wilson Chapman of IndieWire commended Imogen Poots's performance, writing that "Baltimore ultimately hinges on Poots to do most of the heavy work, and the consistently great actor is magnetic in the role, nervy and vulnerable but with a clear-eyed belief in her own convictions that makes her pop off the screen. If the movie isn't ever quite able to inspire the same devotion from the audience that Rose Dugdale has for her cause, watching a protagonist as compelling as her still makes for a thrilling 90 minutes and change." Rodrigo Perez of The Playlist echoed these sentiments, writing that "Poots is riveting as a revolutionary, and the drama knows how to pitch the escalation of intensity, but Baltimore and its sense of guilt and conscience is too obscure to affect the average viewer."