Jack (Daniel Day-Lewis) lives on the site of his abandoned island commune with his 16-year-old daughter Rose (Camilla Belle). Since the breakup of the commune, Jack has sheltered Rose completely from the influences of the outside world, but now his fatal illness and Rose's emerging womanhood pose troubling questions about the days ahead...When Jack invites his girlfriend Kathleen (Catherine Keener) and her sons Rodney (Ryan McDonald) and Thaddius (Paul Dano) to live with them, Rose feels betrayed and the situation quickly becomes precarious.
Mixed feelings.
A complex story exploring the emotional relationship between father and daughter isolated from the 'rat race'.
Day Lewis plays Jack, a father with good intentions turned bad in his attempt to protect his daughter from the corrupt outside world, they live self sufficiantly on a now deserted ex commune, ironically funded by Lewis's inheritance. However this supposed idyllic lifestyle has resulted in creating a naive, inquisitive sociopath in his daughter who demonically resents the intrusion of Jack's previously unknown girlfriend to the island with her two adolescant sons resulting in psychotic chaos and jealousy. Jack has chronic heart failure and was intending to crea...
Worth a watch
An interesting film; not one to watch if you want an easy ride or lots of action, but some good characterisation and fine acting led by Mr. Day-Lewis.
Leaves you with something to think about; a good one for those who like films about people and relationships that aren't the usual Hollywood shallow type.
A Scottish countercultural idealist who years back helped found a commune on a sparsely populated U.S. Eastern seaboard island, Jack Slavin (Day-Lewis) by 1986 has seen everyone leave the compound except for his 16-year-old daughter Rose (Camilla Belle). Jack has allowed Rose very little contact with the outside world, homeschooling her, allowing no television or other cultural contamination and generally considering her a prize exception to the general decline in human standards.
Emotionally, they could scarcely be more connected, and physically perhaps are a shade too close for comfort. Jack has put all of himself into making Rose the blossoming woman she ...
Ballad of Jack and Rose, The
Ellen Kuras' lush, nature-worshipping cinematography establishes a dreamy atmosphere at the film's start
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