John Carney’s films are the sort that would be easier to dismiss as “sentimental” if his central belief — in the redemptive power of music — didn’t happen to be kinda true.…
John Carney, the Irish filmmaker of “Once,” “Sing Street” and “Begin Again,” makes the movie version of “three chords and the truth.”
The song remains much the same in Carney’s latest charmer, “Flora and Son,” starring Eve Hewson as a working-class single mother in Dublin who takes up guitar lessons. Flora’s initial instinct when she snags a beat-up acoustic guitar out of a dumpster, is to give it to her troubled 14-year-old son, Max as a day-late birthday present. Max, though, is nonplussed.Their life together in a small apartment is far from harmonious. Their interactions are caustic and cruel.
Pondering her sad state of affairs, Flora finds new resolve. “This can’t be my story,” she says, like a good protagonist. “This can’t be my narrative.” She flips around on YouTube looking for guitar lessons before settling on Jeff , a laid-back instructor in Southern California who she’s immediately attracted to.
The movie proceeds with the satisfying structure of a song: verse, chorus, bridge. Flora’s ex-husband, Ian , doubts her commitment. But Flora proves adept at her new hobby, which fosters a newfound connection with her son.
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