So we have the Oscar-winning poet laureate's son wasting his and our time in a flower-power-hangover movie that might have been made 25 years ago, though better, by Hal Ashby.
Jack Slavin, a Scottish farmer with a heart ailment, lives on an island which had been a hippie commune decades before.
Jack (Daniel Day-Lewis) lives on the site of his abandoned island commune with his 16-year-old daughter Rose (Camilla Belle). The DVD contained commentary with director and writer Rebecca Miller and the making of He is struggling to keep landowners from building developments on the wetland.
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That night, Rose kisses Jack; the shock that his daughter is in love with him—and that he allowed her to kiss him—makes him upset, and he weeps.
He tries to sell his property to Rance, upsetting Rose.
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A fable of the end of innocence, complete with such symbols of paradise lost as a snake (a fugitive copperhead) and a toppled playhouse.
Rebecca Miller's "The Ballad of Jack and Rose" (2005) presents an intimate look at how father-daughter relationships can cross the line into covert or emotional incest. One night, Rose spies on Jack and Kathleen in bed together, and develops a strange jealousy toward Kathleen.
Directed by Rebecca Miller. The Ballad of Jack and Rose movie reviews & Metacritic score: A powerful and poetic feature about a man (Daniel Day-Lewis) who has cut himself off from the world that refuses to …
TV The trouble comes with the sense of the script, thet looks a little bit self conscious of its pomp and arrogance.
Whoa, Keanu Belle uses her blank, doll-like beauty to unnerving effect: she has the vulnerability--and the amorality--of an unbroken colt.
It's about two-thirds a great movie and worth it for those two-thirds.
A father and daughter isolated on an island off the East Coast and living on a once-thriving commune grapple with the limits of family and sexuality.
June 8, 2005
Use the HTML below. The Ballad of Jack and Rose is a 2005 drama film written and directed by Rebecca Miller, and starring her husband Daniel Day-Lewis; it also stars Camilla Belle, Catherine Keener, Paul Dano, Ryan McDonald, Jason Lee, Jena Malone, Susanna Thompson and Beau Bridges.The film tells the story of an environmentalist and his teenage daughter who live on a secluded island commune. 1986.
By creating an account, you agree to the He and Rose go to the house of the housing developer, Marty Rance, and Jack breaks down, finding that he has no fight left in him.