Monday, October 30, 2023

Flora and Son (2023)

Jack and I enjoyed this story of a divorced Irish woman who finds common ground in music with her rebellious teenage son. Eve Hewson is terrific as the headstrong Flora as is Oren Kinland as her son Max. Joseph Gordon-Levitt is her teacher and Jack Reynor Max's father.

The latest offering from acclaimed Irish director/writer John Carney, this has some laughs, clever camera gags in Gordon-Levitt's scenes, and lots of nice musical sequences in several genres.

Carney and Gary Clark are credited with the soundtrack, available on Apple Music. Much of it has vocals so I have to skip past them while I write so I can compose sentences, but, as I said, the music is good. Hewson and Gordon-Levitt sing and play well.

Carney, Reynor, and Clark were last blogged for Sing Street and Gordon-Levitt for The Trial of the Chicago 7. Hewson is the daughter of U2 front man Bono (trivia: his real name is Paul Hewson) and can boast playing Becka in all ten episodes of Bad Sisters and James Gandolfini's daughter in Enough Said (though I didn't mention her) among her dozens of credits. This is Kinlan's feature debut.

Rotten Tomatoes' critics and audiences are singing its praises, averaging 94%, while its audiences are backup at 86. We streamed it on Apple TV on October 11 after being bombarded with the trailer every time we booted up the device.

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