The Ballad of Jack and Rose
A father and daughter isolated on an island off the East Coast and living on a once thriving commune grapple with the limits of family and sexuality.
- Director: Rebecca Miller
- Genre: Drama
- Runtime: 112 minutes
Cast
Camilla Belle : Rose Slavin
Daniel Day-Lewis : Jack Slavin
Catherine Keener : Kathleen
Ryan McDonald : Rodney (as Ryan Mcdonald)
Paul Dano : Thaddius
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Jack Slavin (Daniel Day-Lewis), an aging Scotsman with a heart condition, lives alone with his teenage daughter, Rose (Camilla Belle), on a small island in the remains of what was once a thriving hippie commune. Rose has been home schooled since the age of 11. Rose adores her father and is content with their simple existence, but Jack begins to suspect that her intense feelings for him are more than a daughter’s love for her father. In an attempt to end her isolation, Jack persuades his girlfriend, Kathleen (Catherine Keener), and her two sons to move in with them.
Rose is displeased with this new “experiment” and sees Kathleen as an intruder. She attempts to rebel against Jack and Kathleen in a variety of increasingly disturbing ways: she has her hair cut short, fires a loaded gun into Jack and Kathleen’s bedroom, and releases a copperhead snake to scare Kathleen. Finally, she loses her virginity to Kathleen’s younger son Thaddius (Paul Dano), and displays a blood-stained sheet on a clothesline. Despite this outrageous behavior, Rose seems to form a genuine connection with Rodney (Ryan McDonald), Kathleen’s sensitive, overweight son.
As Jack’s health declines, he becomes more aware of how he has “failed” to prepare Rose for a future without him, and is forced to face his complicated feelings for his own daughter. When a fight over Rose breaks out between Jack and Thaddius, Rose pushes Thaddius out of a window, severely injuring him; with that, Kathleen’s relationship with Jack ends and her family moves out, and Jack agrees to give back Kathleen a “severance” of $20,000. Jack and Rose are alone again for the final days of Jack’s life. While lying beside each other, Jack and Rose share an incestuous kiss, that is ambiguously portrayed as either reality or Jack’s “nightmare”. Jack pulls away, asking both her and God to forgive him, but Rose sees nothing shameful in their feelings. After his death, Rose sets fire to their house, intending to die as well, but remembers her promise to “live” for Jack and escapes by boat. Rose then leaves the island and moves to a commune in Vermont to continue in the lifestyle taught by her father. Read more
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