This is from the same writer/director as Once (which I love) and Begin Again (which is fine), and this is easily more on the "love" side. The songs in this are genuinely great, and I deeply appreciated that we didn't just hear snippets of them but got full music videos -- the final prom scene features three full-length songs back to back, and it was fantastic. While our female lead treads very close to "damaged cool girl" tropes, the character interactions on the whole are funny and charming, even down to less central characters like the school bully and the main teen's older brother. The movie's visuals are very much contrasting the realism of everyday life with the otherworldliness of music videos, and some of those sequences work especially well in painting music as an escape from a life that feels like it's going nowhere. It ends on an ambiguous but hopeful note. I'm so glad I finally got the nudge to watch this one.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Sing Street > Hustle & Flow
Sing Street > Jack Goes Boating
Sing Street > Crimes and Misdemeanors
Sing Street < Moxie
Sing Street < The Young Girls of Rochefort
Sing Street > Rurouni Kenshin
Sing Street < Come Back to the Five and Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
Sing Street > Pirate Radio
Sing Street > Horrible Bosses
Sing Street > Lion
Sing Street > Beginners
Sing Street < Om Shanti Om
Final spot: #353 out of 3468 movies, or 90%.
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