Written by Nicole Taylor
Directed by Tom Harper
Starring Jessie Buckley, Julie Walters and Sophie Okenedo
MPAA rating: R for language throughout, some sexuality and brief drug material
Running time: 1 hour and 40 minutes

by Fiona Underhill

After starring in one of 2017’s best films, Beast (for which she should have received more awards-recognition), Irish actress Jessie Buckley returns in a central role as Rose-Lynn Harlan – an ex-convict from Glasgow who has ambitions of being a country (NOT country and western) singer. Both Buckley and her Beast co-star Johnny Flynn are singer-songwriters, but that film focused on their acting rather than singing talents. In Wild Rose, Buckley finally gets to stretch her vocal cords, in what is surely a passion-project for her.