<em>Wild Rose</em> Is the Best Kind of Musical Melodrama
The actor Jessie Buckley gives an electrifying performance as a struggling Glasgow mom who dreams of being a Nashville star.
by David Sims
Jun 19, 2019
2 minutes
There is a sub-sub-genre of film that I have an extreme, long-standing weakness for: If your movie is about working-class Brits living in a tough part of town and struggling to express themselves artistically, I am almost certainly going to like it. In Tom Harper’s , Rose-Lynn Harlan (played by Jessie Buckley) is a 20-something Glaswegian who was recently released from prison, is struggling to raise two young children,and his ballet dreams, or the embittered miner musicians of , or the grumpy cobblers of , I was enraptured from the get-go.
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