There are a handful of title cards to explain the fantastical world in which “O’Dessa” takes place, but perhaps it would be more instructive if there were a few more to lead audiences back to a time before the acquisition of Fox by Disney, when Geremy Jasper’s ambitious rock opera first started to be developed at Searchlight with great enthusiasm in the wake of the director’s Sundance hit “Patti Cakes.” Now shredded into ribbons, the story of a girl (Sadie Sink) and her guitar feels like the end product of various executive regimes that couldn’t agree on a single vision, ultimately settling on the simplest of stories inside an
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