Ballad of Jack and Rose

I watched it on dvd. Daniel Day Lewis movie, that I’d never heard of. I really liked it.
Quirky little movie. Lewis is outstanding as per usual.

Lewis plays a leftist-radical, btw.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ballad_of_Jack_and_Rose
Jack Slavin (Daniel Day-Lewis), a Scottish farmer with a heart ailment, lives on an island which had been a hippie commune decades before. He is struggling to keep landowners from building developments on the wetland. His teenaged daughter…
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The Ballad of Jack and Rose premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 23, 2005; it was later given a limited theatrical release on March 23, 2005, grossing $59,459 in its opening weekend, in 4 theaters. The highest position it reached was during its second week of release, grossing $135,100, and the lowest position it reached was at its last week of release, grossing $406. Its widest release was 74 theaters. The film grossed $712,275 domestically and just $916,051 worldwide.

Critical reception to the film was heavily divided; some critics disliked the film, such as Todd McCarthy of Variety, who wrote that it “gets caught up in incidental distractions that lead the drama astray”.[1] Others praised it; Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times called the film a “model of artistic, provocative American filmmaking”.[2]

The heavy divide between critical praise and disdain was further illustrated by critics Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper, who were at odds when reviewing the film on their television program. Roeper, although impressed by the cinematography, dismissed the film and criticized the portrayal of the character of Jack, ultimately saying: “Jack and Rose’s ballad is a sour song punctuated by ugly behavior from characters who are supposed to be sympathetic”.[3] Ebert, on the other hand, praised the film on most accounts, ultimately calling it “an absorbing experience”.[4]