As far as I can tell, the point of "The Ballad of Jack and Rose" is to warn us not to be single-minded idealists who ruin
our lives and the lives of others through our obsessions. Well, OK. I hadn't planned on it, really. The warning is appreciated, but unnecessary, thank you. What we have here, in writer/director Rebecca Miller's follow-up to her equally obfuscated "Personal Velocity," is a movie that breathes with interesting characters but that eventually becomes so "interesting" itself that it crosses over into "preposterous" territory. You pile up too many unusual people and events and the thing's bound to tip over.
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