Report From Sundance Sundance 2025: Carey Mulligan gets wasted in this contrived, cloying dramedy Carey Mulligan and Tom Basden appear in The Ballad of Wallis Island (Photo by Alistair Heap) “The Ballad of Wallis Island” resembles a band that continues playing despite the fact that their instruments are clearly out of tune. It’s a film that keeps plowing ahead despite exhausting its audience right out of the gate as it tells the story of a lonely man who uses his lottery winnings to try to