Review: Jessie Buckley soars as a Scots country singer in the crowd-pleaser 'Wild Rose'
by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
Jun 20, 2019
3 minutes
Rose-Lynn Harlan, the fiery-haired heroine of the hugely satisfying kitchen-sink fairy tale "Wild Rose," isn't the kind of gal who whistles while she works. She sings while she vacuums, running the cleaner across the carpet and crooning her favorite country tunes, her voice a startling distillation of raw talent and emotion. She closes her eyes and loses herself in the music, and for a brief moment reality fades from view, a foyer becomes a stage and an act of daily drudgery becomes a glorious, hallucinatory bliss-out.
Rose-Lynn shares her star-is-born aura with Jessie Buckley, the extraordinary Irish
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