The always-superb Day-Lewis and bright newcomer Belle almost redeem this pretentious, improbable scenario. But almost isn't enough.
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04/29/05
The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005)
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Reviews Counted:107
Fresh:49
Rotten:58
Average Rating:5.6/10
Consensus: Heavy on the symbolism and overly contrived.
Theatrical Release:31-03-2006
Synopsis: Writer-director Rebecca Miller's third film (following ANGELA and PERSONAL VELOCITY) is a powerful, poignant drama about a father and daughter living on their own on the outskirts of nowhere, just... [More]
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Camilla Belle, Catherine Keener, Paul Dano
Director: Rebecca Miller
Reviews for The Ballad of Jack and Rose
Poignant, melancholic and a little strange, The Ballad of Jack and Rose is an effective rendering of the loss of innocence and the acceptance that some ideals can't survive in a modern world.
04/28/05
Rebecca Miller’s third feature begins as a two-character drama, and it would have been so much better if it had stayed that way.
04/28/05
Murky, disturbing stuff that most of the time does better at repelling viewers than compelling them to stick around to see what happens next.
04/27/05
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04/23/05
The entire movie seems to be suffering from the same suffocating disease as Jack.
04/22/05
Doesn't seem to know what it wants to be, and that's right down to its artificial-feeling ending.
04/22/05
We leave this movie hoping to see Miller and Lewis together again soon.
04/22/05
Performances are exceptional in this melodramatic film from the daughter of Arthur Miller.
04/22/05
Daniel Day-Lewis gives the first great performance of 2005.
04/19/05
Cinematic flourishes intoxicate until the hangover of retrospect sets in, and you recognize the unhealthiness of the filial relationship this scene has celebrated.
04/15/05
Jack's realizations, particularly vis-à-vis his daughter, offer rich dramatic possibilities.
04/14/05
It's all strange and mildly unpleasant and self-consciously arty.
04/14/05
It's generally a bad sign when you find yourself actively longing for the deadly copperhead snake that co-stars to take a nice, juicy bite out of the alleged protagonist.
04/14/05
The film's characters serve their schematic functions in Miller's story and never stray outside them.
04/14/05
If Miller's drama begins as a wistful ballad, it decomposes into an overwrought dirge.
04/13/05
While I appreciate and respect Miller’s focus on nature and innocence, I couldn’t help but feel the film was puffed up and sustaining itself on esoteric nonsense.
04/12/05
The appeal of the piece is limited; the telling of it is accomplished
04/11/05
Day-Lewis brings the picture closer, by himself, to the ballad of its title than to the dirge it constantly threatens to be.
04/07/05
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