I love how john carney’s movies are all about sharing music. whether it’s with your friends or your family or someone you’ve never met before but want to make music with, talk to, and listen to it. I think that’s the whole point.

I love how john carney’s movies are all about sharing music. whether it’s with your friends or your family or someone you’ve never met before but want to make music with, talk to, and listen to it. I think that’s the whole point.

"Want a glass of wine?""Wine, Flora? At ten o'clock in the morning? No."cuts to him drinking his third pint of Guinness

I love the Irish! 💚🤍🧡

"Want a glass of wine?""Wine, Flora? At ten o'clock in the morning? No."cuts to him drinking his third pint of Guinness

I love the Irish! 💚🤍🧡

A Hallmark-style movie with an edgy twist that despite its many flaws ends up pretty heartfelt by the end.

If you are going to have a drama that is largely dialogue heavy and growth-focused, you need to have a cast of likable characters. Flora and Son mostly misses this mark. Flora is a young single mother who is barely scraping by with her son Max. Max is a distant child who often voices his dissatisfaction with his mother and his desire to live with his father full-time. With Max's interest in electronic music, Flora presents him with the gift of an acoustic guitar that she found in the dumpster. When he shows no interest in it, she decides to pick up the instrument for herself as an emotional outlet. Stop me if you've heard something like this before!

While it is generally cookie-cutter and hard to love considering the general behavior of our main protagonists, the journey they go on does have a relatively triumphant ending that saves the movie in a few respects. The stuff with the guitar instructor feels pretty forced, but all of the moments in the mother-son relationship felt genuine and I wished there was a bit more of.

A Hallmark-style movie with an edgy twist that despite its many flaws ends up pretty heartfelt by the end.

If you are going to have a drama that is largely dialogue heavy and growth-focused, you need to have a cast of likable characters. Flora and Son mostly misses this mark. Flora is a young single mother who is barely scraping by with her son Max. Max is a distant child who often voices his dissatisfaction with his mother and his desire to live with his father full-time. With Max's interest in electronic music, Flora presents him with the gift of an acoustic guitar that she found in the dumpster. When he shows no interest in it, she decides to pick up the instrument for herself as an emotional outlet. Stop me if you've heard something like this before!

While it is generally cookie-cutter and hard to love considering the general behavior of our main protagonists, the journey they go on does have a relatively triumphant ending that saves the movie in a few respects. The stuff with the guitar instructor feels pretty forced, but all of the moments in the mother-son relationship felt genuine and I wished there was a bit more of.

i wish it were shot on 35mm

i wish it were shot on 35mm

Even though these characters are so unlikable for the first two/thirds of this movie, I came to really feel for them by the end! I found this funny and heartfelt and, even though the music isn’t quite as memorable as earlier John Carney films, it still feels satisfying when they all come together in the end for the big musical climax.

Even though these characters are so unlikable for the first two/thirds of this movie, I came to really feel for them by the end! I found this funny and heartfelt and, even though the music isn’t quite as memorable as earlier John Carney films, it still feels satisfying when they all come together in the end for the big musical climax.