A good movie

Since I have a weak spot for Jessie Buckley and since I kept hearing some pretty good things about this movie, I was quite eager to check it out. Well, to be honest, the movie itself didn’t turn out to be great after all though. At least, they didn’t make the mistake of turning the whole thing into some kind of Hollywood fairy tale during which the main character met some powerful producer who launched her career and made her mighty famous. Unfortunately, the story still didn’t really work though. The first issue was the lack of information regarding how Rose-Lynn really was before she went to prison. Sure, she had been ‘wild’ but how wild exactly? I mean, she had been to prison for a year but her kids reacted as if they had no contact with her for much longer than that. However, an even bigger issue was that the character was roaming around aimlessly for just way too long. Eventually, she needed the whole movie to figure out that, if she really wanted to succeed in this business, even if she was really talented, the only way was to really work at her craft and she might get there at some point. Anyway, even if the approach they took was rather frustrating, the damned thing still worked out though because Jessie Buckley gave here such a star-making performance. Indeed, even though the story itself had some issues, she was just so convincing, delivering such a fully developed and complex character. The fact that she is a strong singer of course really helped as well. Basically, she was just quite spellbinding to behold which is even more impressive when you think that it was only her 2^nd acting credit. Anyway, to conclude, in spite of its flaws, thanks to an amazing Jessie Buckley, the damned thing was still definitely worth a look.