Wild Rose

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This film is worth seeing for the music alone, the soundtrack is fantastic. Dame judy Dench and Jessie Buckley play their parts brilliantly and the story is a good one with a clever ending. My only grievance is this could have been a really great feel good movie but the low parts of this film were just too low. You went from laughing and enjoying the music to harsh gritty realism which just brought you back to Earth with a bump and sucked all the fun out immediately. This leaves the film a bit between 2 stools of Ken Loach and A star is born. I would recommend seeing it though it is a good british film and as I say the soundtrack is great.

I really wanted to like this more but it's quite bleak and the lead character is mostly very unlikeable . Underwhelming overall and not as funny or sad as it could and should have been

Not my sort of music but fairly interesting to watch. Only annoying thing is the same old song is sung throughout. Not for everyone

Loved this film from start to finish - great acting & singing & very emotional.

A thoroughly good film with an exceptional performance from the lead jessie Buckley, a star in the making, solid back up performances from sophie okenedo and the always brilliant julie Walters It may be a little predictable but the music is great, and I'm not really a fan of country music, it's like a gritty version of a star is born, with a lot of swearing, but a very enjoyable way to spend a couple of hours

Wild Rose is not a movie I'd ever watch, but I did! As part of the Odeons 'screen unseen', you pay £5 to watch an unreleased film, but you don't know what it is untill it starts. They're always excellent films. Wild rose was no exception. But it does have flaws. Positives: The lead, Jessie Buckley is really strong. At times she's so strong that other actors looked really weak. For the most part the supporting actors somewhat let the film down. But Buckley is the star attraction anyway. The soundtrack is really good and won't be too obvious to most people. Buckley's voice is ecstasy at times. Especially in a cinema theater. The film is smarter than it appears. There was a jarring moment in which the whole film suddenly feels as though a different director has taken over. From that moment I felt the quality of the film really took of and was rather enjoyable. Weaknesses: The first 20 minutes is marred by awful, cringy British comedy. Not the good kind. Just bad. Supporting cast are at times, shocking. Sophie Okonedo demolished her character with almost childish emotion. Her character is on the edge of believable. But the writing didn't allow for much relationship development. Sophie really had to nail her scenes to make it work and she just isn't up to the task. You can tell the writers are up against it at times. But that I felt emotional at the conclusion really sums up that the film is at least powerful enough to worth watching.

Having just watched Wild Rose as part of a Mothers Day early preview screening I was blown away by the soon to be superstar talent of Jessie Buckley. This woman can act and sing and knock your socks off doing both. You want to smack her and then hug her. Hugely strong support from the legendary Julie Walters and two adorable children and a fantastic soundtrack. This film is a must see. As we left in tears, the audience were also wiping their eyes. Outstanding.

"Wild Rose" is perhaps a little formulaic, but I really liked the message it lands on at the end, which is that life is a series of compromises, and while few of us will ultimately achieve our dreams (if we have any to begin with), the alternative is not necessarily a life of dullness and misery. No, despite what movies would have us believe, there is something in between. "Wild Rose" wraps things up a bit too patly -- in my actual personal experience I have not seen people as selfish as this film's heroine is suddenly turn things around and re-order her priorities. But it's nice to think that it's possible, and this is one of those films that reminds me that sometimes I turn to movies not to show me how things actually are, but how things could be. Jessie Buckley is phenomenal in the title role. It takes a special actress to make a pretty unlikable character sympathetic and worth two hours of your time. Julie Walters is also wonderful as her fed up mom. Sophie Okonedo is stuck playing the film's most unrealistic character, a woman who is simply too good to be true. I also liked that this movie, even if cursorily, examines the gulf that exists between people's romanticized perceptions of the entertainment world and the harsh realities of it. Anyone with an ounce of talent thinks they're special and the entire world will recognize it if they can just get their break. The reality is that talented people grow on trees, and you're most likely going nowhere if you don't know the right people and how to play the game. Grade: A-

Wild Rose 🥀 a film about Country and Western music . 3 chords and the truth. Singer as to choose between her kids or her dream of being a country singer ( not western) lead actor Jessie Buckley is great , real star quality. The music is incidental really. It's a film about relationship, mum n her kids , mother and daughter . It's not a classic but it's a decent film and well worth viewing 6/10