Wild Rose: Three chords and the truth.
It’s date night and I walk out the cinema after seeing this film and I ask my girlfriend what she thought of it. “I don’t know, I liked it but I just wished there was more” she sighed with mild disappointment, to which I said “ isn’t that the sign of a great movie?” The discussion continued with Niamh making the very good point of now that we're in the age of "the binge watch"something as character driven as this with so much to explore would work very well as a four part BBC type drama, which was something I really couldn't disagree with.
Now something you should know about me before reading my possibly biased review of this film is that I’m a HUGE country music fan. The main reason I saw this film was because of its country music theme and for ages I’ve been looking for another film I love as much as Country Strong and spoiler alert, I think I may have found it.
Jessie Buckley .... wow wow wow WOW what a performance! Saw her in 'Beast' last year with Johnny Flynn, who is also a folk singer, and she was brilliant in that so I was looking forward to seeing her in this. In the first scene she walks out of prison where you get a devil may care/outlaw attitude from the character and from seeing her in 'Beast' where she plays a much more introverted timid character very well, I was worried that a loud mouthed "cowboy" wasn’t her casting, but 2 minutes later I’d already forgotten my misplaced preconceptions as I was utterly absorbed by her truly stunning performance.
This film tells the story of an aggressively Scottish ex-con fresh out of the joint selfishly hellbent on realising her dream of becoming a country music star out in Nashville. She’s got to raise the money, make the connections and hone her craft whilst parrying off her mother, the magnificent Julie Walters, for neglecting the singers two adorable children to achieve her ‘soul purpose in life.’
The relationships between the characters and the beautiful soundtrack are what drive this film so powerfully. Jessie and Julie are a match made in heaven and have scenes that will melt your heart and tear you apart. Constantly caught between her passion for music and her duties of being a mother you really engage with Jessie’s dilemma and feel every decision she makes.
I don’t want to give too much else away about the film but I urge everyone to see this film as soon as humanly possible. This film gets my highest RATING SO FAR OF 9.2/10 so don’t mess around with any of this super hero shit (I’m joking of course I've already booked my midnight ticket for Endgame) and get your arse to the cinema for 'Wild Rose.'
I’ve been Christopher Whitmore, thanks for reading.
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