Wild Rose
Synopsis
Diamond-in-the-rough Rose-Lynn Harlan (Jessie Buckley) is fresh out of prison and determined to make it as Country star. But her long suffering mother (Julie Walters), who has raised Rose-Lynn’s two children in her absence, thinks her dream is pie in the sky and demands she put family first. Forced to take a dead end job, she soon discovers a silver lining: her new employer (Sophie Okonedo) has become her biggest fan and wants to help her realise her ambition. With her self-belief restored, she begins to discover who she really is and that there is a different path to success.
Written by award winning writer Nicole Taylor (BAFTA for Best Writer for Three Girls and nominated for The C-Word), Wild Rose is a funny, sad, tender and uplifting story that will sweep along even the most hardened movie cynic: in her break-out role, star-in-the-making Buckley is utterly irresistible.
Cast & Crew
Writer Nicole Taylor
Director Tom Harper
Producer Faye Ward
Cast
Jessie Buckley, Julie Walters, Sophie Okonedo, Jamie Sives, James Harkness, Ashley Shelton
Running Time 101 mins
Certification 15
Distributor eOne
Each of the Reclaim The Frame screenings will be followed by a special BEV A&Q discussion with invited speakers.
Reclaim the Frame is supported by the BFI Audience Fund using funding from the National Lottery to grow audience appetite for female-led films across the UK. Birds’ Eye View is a film charity run by the industry insiders who have been dedicated to moving the dial on equality in film for 15 years.
We will tour with the filmmakers and cast (TBC) to London, Manchester, Newcastle, Plymouth, and Birmingham.
The Stills
Reviews
QUOTES Breaking out: ‘This is a prison break film about people who break out of their cages, whether that’s socially or financially, and against the odds do incredible things. We’ve all had those dreams. For me that was leaving my hometown of Kerry when I was 17 and moving to London’ (Jessie Buckley) Making it raw: ‘I didn’t know anything about country music before this, but I’ve fallen completely in love with it. I think not knowing it has given me the chance to take risks and have a rawness the story really needs. When you sing these songs, it’s about letting it go and letting it happen.’ (JB) ‘All rust, no sheen’: If there is any sort of through-line to her characters, she says, is is that they are ‘all rust, no sheen’. It is the same in her life. ‘I try to be honest’, she says. (JB) Three chords and the truth’: ‘It’s what I learned from country. It’s very painful stories about very human characters doing very normal things. The lyrics in country music are so direct, the tune is very simple and the lyrics are just like arrows that drive into your heart.’ (JB) Something special: ‘I’ve read a million scripts in my life so it has to be something quite special. When I first the read the script for Wild Rose, I just loved the character - her strength and endurance, and her relationship with her daughter.’ (Julie Walters) Three chords and the truth: ‘A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords and the truth - that’s what a country song is. There is a lot of heartache in the world.’ (Willie Nelson)
“Irresistible…in Jessie Buckley, a true star is born”
The Telegraph
“A must-see, funny moving & brilliantly uplifting”
Stylist
“Wonderful…A breakout, toe-tapping hit”
The Hollywood Reporter
"An irresistible crowd-pleaser...Jessie Buckley is incandescent"
The Irish Times