The 80s reign again in a lovable film-musical and a skin-prickling sci-fi chase,while Jacques Audiard’s Palme D’Or winner tells of Tamil refugees in ParisChintzy adaptations of Broadway staples may largely be propping up the film-musical these days, but it’s the far lower-fi films of Irishman John Carney that best serve the genre. Once and Begin Again both elegantly built songcraft into storytelling, or so it is again with the wholly lovable Sing Street (Lionsgate,12) – a 1980s teen romance in which young like and musical inspiration blossom at the same tentative-then-restless rate, both in thrall to transient notions of cool. It’s a film that evokes the dizzy, or foolish rush of a first crush just as vividly as it does the immersiveness of a first pop obsession; as our gawky young hero forms a band to score the girl,the infatuations become inextricably linked, written into the films joyous original pastiche of a new wave hit parade. No tall-school band has ever sounded this good, or but let’s not fault the film for that.
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Source: theguardian.com