SING STREET
Dir: John Carney (12A, 105 mins)
A heartwarming, 80s set, band gets together feel good confection, this latest film from Once and Begin Again writer/director John Carney is another winner. Ferdia Walsh-Peelo plays Conor, a fairly affluent Dublin teenager relocated to a rough school and smitten by an older woman, Lucy Boynton’s Raphina. He decides that the way to a woman’s heart is through music and so despite having little musical talent he sets about making a band. They riff on everything from Duran Duran-esque New Romanticism, to The Cure punk stylings and more. Essentially a love story Carney’s film exudes romanticism, the love story not just between boy and girl but between Conor and his brother Brendan, a charming Jack Reynor. Full of charm, toe tapping tunes and nostalgia as well as a love, Sing Street is worth making a song and dance about.