“The Ballad of Jack and Rose” by Rebecca Miller (2005)

Movies directed by women

The work of Rebecca Miller (3/5)

There are many things in this movie that just do not fit. First, it is difficult to understand the fact that a man like Jack (Daniel Day-Lewis) would suddenly
abandon the quality of life he has built for himself and his daughter to invite his girlfriend and her two sons to share his life in the middle of nowhere; second, he has to give a check to his girlfriend to convince her to come and live with him; third, he doesn’t even discuss their coming with his daughter with whom he shares everything; fourth, he has to pay the woman again to convince her to move out (and she doesn’t even say a word against being bought around); fifth, the copied-and-paste musical score made of existing songs (songs that were not written for the movie) breaks the unity of the movie, making it look like it has been patch-worked; sixth, although Daniel Day-Lewis is a good actor, he is here miscast.
And then, there are so many aspects that could have made this movie really great…
I wonder what you think about it :)

Rotten Tomatoes Critics 5,6
Metascore 5,9
Roger Ebert 7,5
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,0
IMDB 6,6
Average critics 6,3
Average public 6,8

Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Camilla Belle, Catherine Keener
Director: Rebecca Miller
Writer: Rebecca Miller
Music by Michael Rohatyn
Cinematography by Ellen Kuras
Film Editing by Sabine Hoffman