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The Ballad of Jack and Rose

2005

Rebecca Miller

Daniel Day-Lewis, Camilla Belle, Catherine Keener, Beau Bridges ...

6.3

551

Drama Jack (Daniel Day-Lewis) lives on the site of his abandoned island commune with his 16-year-old daughter Rose (Camilla Belle). Jack has sheltered Rose from the influences of the outside world, but now Rose's emerging womanhood poses troubling questions about the days ahead. A man who has lived a life motivated by environmentalism and other altruistic causes, Jack now rages at those who do not share his concerns, like developer Marty ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"[It is] unbelievable because Ms. Miller is too smitten with the idea of this impossible love to make her characters ring true"	NEG
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"[It] doesn't succeed in everything it sets out to do. But as a statement about the death rattle of 60s counterculture it's thoughtful and affecting"	NEU
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"An absorbing experience. Consider the care with which Miller handles a confrontation between Jack and the home-builder (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Nick Schager Slant	"Miller creates a sense of ethereal unease through downy cinematography and rhythmical fades, but while her dialogue is unaffected, her symbolism (...) is earnestly inelegant (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Anna Smith Empire	"Day-Lewis doesn't get much chance to stretch himself in this atmospheric drama whose characters outshine a limited script (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"An eccentric, unsatisfying affair which fails to convert the potential of its cast (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
Ireland	Caroline Hennessy RTÉ	"Unashamedly poetic and beautiful, 'The Ballad of Jack and Rose' is an artistic triumph, although a somewhat cold one (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Stella Papamichael BBC	"[It] fails to move thanks to the distraction of Keener and co. Ultimately it's a ballad that fails to strike a universal chord (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
Ireland	entertainment.ie	"It is the subtle teenage performances that makes this film worth a look (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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