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- 2019
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- 2019
- R
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- 1 h 41 m
Summary Rose-Lynn Harlan (Jessie Buckley), a rebellious country singer who dreams of trading the working-class streets of Glasgow for the Grand Ole Opry of Nashville, juggles her menial job, two children, and committed mother (Julie Walters), as she pursues her bold ambition of a one-way ticket to musical stardom. With the support of her boss (S...
Directed By: Tom Harper
Written By: Nicole Taylor
- 2019
- R
- Neon
- 1 h 41 m
- 2019
- R
- Neon
- 1 h 41 m
Wild Rose
80
8.2
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Summary Rose-Lynn Harlan (Jessie Buckley), a rebellious country singer who dreams of trading the working-class streets of Glasgow for the Grand Ole Opry of Nashville, juggles her menial job, two children, and committed mother (Julie Walters), as she pursues her bold ambition of a one-way ticket to musical stardom. With the support of her boss (S...
Directed By: Tom Harper
Written By: Nicole Taylor
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 32 Critic Reviews
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94% Positive
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6% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 32 Critic Reviews
80
94% Positive
30 Reviews
30 Reviews
6% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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To its great credit, the movie turns left when you expect it to turn right, taking a route that is less well traveled, yet more plausible.
Pure dead gallus (that's Scots for 'wonderful').
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 109 User Ratings
8.2
83% Positive
91 Ratings
91 Ratings
8% Mixed
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8% Negative
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User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 109 User Ratings
8.2
83% Positive
91 Ratings
91 Ratings
8% Mixed
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
8% Negative
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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As Rose-Lynn, stomping along in white cowboy boots, she is ballsy and fiery, at once wised up and dangerously immature.
Jessie Buckley, who proved so electrifying in Michael Pearce’s psychological thriller Beast, lights up the screen as Rose-Lynn Harlan; a 23-year-old firebrand, fresh out of jail, wearing an electronic tag beneath white cowgirl boots.
Buckley’s naturalism, combined with her abundant charisma and wonderfully warm-toned, slightly gritty singing voice, make her irresistible here.
Tom Harper’s film empathetically probes the growing pains of self-improvement.
Buckley provides a vitamin boost in every scene.
Wild Rose is Rose-Lynn, a Glasgow girl who has one passion, to get to Nashville and make it as a country singer. However she faces some serious obstacles including, living in Glasgow, having a prison record, no job and serious family complications. Despite the fact that Rose-Lynn will frustrate and anger you with her actions you will root for her. One of the best movies of the year with a star-making breakout performance by Jessie Buckley. Follows what should have been her breakout performance in Beast last year but sadly that film was in a very limited release. Wild Rose is not a musical but it has an outstanding soundtrack that meshes perfectly with character development and the story arc. Jessie sings all of the songs in the film, with raw passion and sensitivity. Glasgow, a song co-written by Mary Steenburgen should get an Oscar nom. Beautifully directed by Tom Harper (War and Peace) and cleverly written with layers, great dialogue and unexpected twists by Nicole Taylor (3 Girls) Co-stars the always wonderful Dame Julie Walters (Educating Rita, Harry Potter and Mary Poppins Returns) as Rose-Lynn's mom and Sophie Okonedo (Hotel, Rwanda, Dirty Pretty Things) The film has had rave reviews by critics and viewers alike and the few so-so reviews still gush about Jessie's performance. A must-see. You will go through all levels of emotion but ultimately fall in love with Rose-Lynn. Guaranteed after seeing the film you will be checking Jessie's videos, interviews, past performances (Woman in White, War and Peace, Taboo, Chernobyl, Beast) and anxiously awaiting the five films that she has coming out in the next year.
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Predictable of course, that can be taken for granted even by watching the trailer, but it manages to feel authentic and that's good considering the story should fight its own argument from the beginning.
Weighing both elements comes out quite well.
I read some criticisms that compared it to A Star Is Born, I didn't see the similitudes beyond the dream of ****.
Certainly the film bets a lot on pleasing the viewer but that's never a bad thing, even before a visible emotional manipulation in the story, but still remains an affecting and enjoyable option.
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Harper is not serving anything new in the table, but this family recipe is a reaffirmation of the good old days.
Wild Rose
Harper is a hardworking common man. Or that's at least how he crafts his film like. In his defence Nicole Taylor's script calls for it, but it is not just that. He could have treated the film like a soaring crowd pleasing commercial film that would maybe marginally reach out to a larger scale. The director Tom Harper instead has a mild balanced therapy that he channels to evolve a wild a character as such. And as much as preposterous it may sound, the journey is equally profound. This, often considered to be eerily resembling with the theme of A Star Is Born, is actually quite sober to ever groove on that dance floor.
Not that it cannot or lacks the potential or even opportunity, for a brief period you can see it easily land on that same note. But aforementioned, Taylor's world is more suburban-y and more importantly satisfied in the world it surrounds itself with. As a result, it focuses on the day to day issues of a common man- in its own way of course- residing in a society juggling the social rigmaroles that everyone tells it to follow dutifully.
And usually, especially in an era that is taken by a storm of coming-of-age genre, the answer would be to break all the bridges and promises to pursue the dream. But what if all of this is a big hallucination, fortunately we have Harper's version the catches the film's criticism with fluffy pillows and country music. Julie Walters is holding that side of the argument and with two empathetic entities playing around the house, she warms the stirred drink of Wild Rose played by Jessie Buckley whose transformation in the film as it ages on the screen reminds you of the old style rehab process where the cage is rattled outside, out in the public, in fact, a crowd.
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Jessie Buckley plays a Glasgow native who dreams of being a country singer in Nashville. However, her recent prison record plus her 2 young kids are getting in the way of her plans. This struggle plays out with plenty of drama and a few well-sung songs by Buckley. Although there are several predictable setbacks and some moments that stretch credibility, this is less a music movie and more a character study about a mildly interesting character. NOTE: Sometimes the Scottish accents are a bit 'o a challenge.
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Production Company
Entertainment One,
British Film Institute (BFI),
Creative Scotland,
Film4,
Fable Pictures,
BFI Film Fund,
Sierra / Affinity,
WR Holdings
Release Date Jun 21, 2019
Duration 1 h 41 m
Rating R
Tagline Sing your own song.
Website
https://www.wildrose-movie.com/
Awards
British Independent Film Awards
• 1 Win & 10 Nominations
Music City Film Critics' Association Awards
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
London Critics Circle Film Awards
• 3 Nominations
