Flora (Eve Hewson) is a struggling single mom with bitter teen son Max (Orén Kinlan). Her ex Kev (Paul Reid) is a musician with a minutiae of past success. Max rejects Flora's trash guitar gift. She starts playing with it and takes internet lessons from Jeff (Joseph Gordon-Levitt).
This is another music themed movie from John Carney who created Sing Street (2016), Once (2007) and Begin Again (2013). On the plus side is Eve Hewson. She is utterly charming. On the lesser side, the big song is nowhere near Falling Slowly. That is understandable since Flora and her son are really just amateurs. Basically, John Carney keeps making the same film and good on him. He has an idea and he's going to make every version of that idea. Music bringing together broken people is a good idea. I was expecting the story to go a different path, but there is something beautiful about this idea of smaller victories. Still, it would be nice if they had a better song.
This is another music themed movie from John Carney who created Sing Street (2016), Once (2007) and Begin Again (2013). On the plus side is Eve Hewson. She is utterly charming. On the lesser side, the big song is nowhere near Falling Slowly. That is understandable since Flora and her son are really just amateurs. Basically, John Carney keeps making the same film and good on him. He has an idea and he's going to make every version of that idea. Music bringing together broken people is a good idea. I was expecting the story to go a different path, but there is something beautiful about this idea of smaller victories. Still, it would be nice if they had a better song.