1991 Directed by Martha Coolidge
Rose is taken in by the Hillyer family to serve as a 1930s housemaid so that she can avoid falling into a life of prostitution. Her appearence and personality is such that all men fall for her, and she knows it. She can't help herself from getting into trouble with men.
Палавата Роуз, Die Lust der schönen Rose, El precio de la ambición, שושנת פרא, Rózsa és tövis, Rosa scompiglio e i suoi amanti, ランブリング・ローズ, As Noites de Rose, Беспутная Роза, Uçarı Gül
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Rambling Rose. 1991. Directed by Martha Coolidge.
Martha Coolidge’s Rambling Rose was a film where Laura Dern and her anatomy are examined along with the inside politics/morals/ethics of a southern family. Now, lets explain anatomy to a family during the Depression era United States. We love Laura Dern and she is so provocative in this role that the cast cannot contain themselves. Overall, this was a 112 mins of an A-list 1990’s cast swooning over Dern’s beauty. The premise was to employ her as a “house guest” to prevent her from becoming a prostitute in Alabama. Robert Duvall was more concerned with epizootics.
Criterion.
One of those great films set in the south to sit alongside the likes of Fried Green Tomatoes and Divine Secrets. Laura Dern is very strong, but dammit Diane Ladd steals the whole film out from under her, a scream every time she’s on screen. A true southern belle playing a southern belle, so entertaining. The movie is a bit strange at times and Laura Dern’s character especially had me thinking WTF multiple times, but otherwise this is an exceptional film that I’m happy to have finally watched.
A baffling screenplay. Here’s some of my favorite lines:
“Replace that tit!”
“I have robbed the cradle and fell into hell.”
“The strangest vibrations in this house today!“
“I am only a human girl person and I ain’t always perfect.”
“I am only a human man person myself of the father variety.“
“Pack your bag, baby. As of this moment, you are hired, mired and fired.”
Nostalgic reminiscences about the South (of the US) in the Depression era. A man looks back on his coming of age as a boy when a beautiful, sensual young woman comes to work at his house. Yes, fairly conventional storytelling but the script is terrific and it looks great.
The (in)famous scene between Laura Dern and Lukas Haas is exquisite - beautifully written and played and very natural.
Laura Dern has never been better than in this.
What a peculiar blend of (relative) sexual frankness and sentimental nostalgia. It’s like a Norman Rockwell oil painting of a 13-year-old boy finger-fucking an adult sexual-abuse survivor.
It’s impressive that Laura Dern brings out the depth in Rose. It’s all in the script, along with much sanctimony from both sides, but Dern cuts through a lot of crap to spotlight the character’s irrepressible, sometimes deluded optimism. She brings a palpable joy to the performance.
But she’s fighting a movie that’s trying to reduce Rose’s most reckless decisions into wistful fodder for a boy’s coming-of-age narrative. In my eyes, Dern wins out, but not without a consistent parade of puzzling distractions surrounding her.
The score is by the legendary Elmer Bernstein.…
I could've saved her. I would've been so nice to her and never asked for s*x and we would've just chilled and talked about music. "No thanks, I'd rather not do that right now, but did you hear the new Blind Willie Johnson?" I'd be so nice in 1929. Three stars!
Such a weird movie tonally and narratively. I haven't made up my mind yet if it works or not. But Laura Dern and especially Diane Ladd are great—their shared filmography is one of the most fascinating when it comes to people who are related doing films together.
couldn’t stop laughing bc i read jeff's review first
diane ladd is constantly yelling things like “honey you know rose has bad memories of farm life!” or “i will not cry like a woman”
