John Carney, the writer-director behind “Once” and “Sing Street,” produces another song-filled charmer.
Fans of those movies know what they’re getting in “Flora and Son,” but even at its most formulaic, it exudes Carney’s familiar values of warmth, playfulness and let’s-put-on-a-show moxie. Propelled by a funny, charismatic turn by Hewson , “Flora and Son” is a feel-good movie that largely earns its sentimental uplift, one sick burn and soaring musical number at a time.
Here, those songs are largely written by Carney and Gary Clark, and they range from folk ditties to a couple of rap-singer-songwriter bangers. When we meet Flora, she’s out clubbing, dancing, drinking, flirting and largely living the life of the arrested adolescent she clearly is. Lost and going down a perilous road of petty crime, Max is so unmanageable that, at one point, Flora admits she sometimes fantasizes about him going missing .
While he’s with his dad, Flora scrounges up a battered guitar in hopes that Max might take it up as a hobby. Soon enough, she’s taking online classes with a Yank named Jeff, a serious, super-cute guy in Los Angeles who is both charmed and alarmed by the chaos merchant who’s fetched up on his digital doorstep.
Jeff is played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who possesses a lovely, gentle singing voice. His early rendition of Tom Waits’s “I Hope That I Don’t Fall in Love With You” brings Flora almost to tears, and she’s not the only one.
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