Honeysuckle Rose

(1980) dir Jerry Schatzberg w/Willie Nelson, Dyan Cannon, Amy Irving, Slim Pickens, Emmylou Harris [119 min; 35mm]

An outlier in Müller’s filmography as it is neither an arthouse favorite nor an L.A. set studio picture, HONEYSUCKLE ROSE features Willie Nelson as a country singer very similar to Willie Nelson who falls for his young, beautiful tourmate (Irving) – causing strife with his wife (Cannon). Punctuated by concert-film-like footage of Nelson and others performing live, HONEYSUCKLE ROSE is a rarely screened country music gem.