“For our art, Cosmo. You can never do anything by half. Do you understand that?”
Sing Street is a story about a high school boy in 1980s Dublin, Ireland named Conor (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo) who decides to start a band to impress a local girl named Raphina (Lucy Boynton) after transferring to a new school.
Upon watching Sing Street, I couldn’t help but compare the film to 2016 phenomenon La La Land. Both films center the idea of following dreams through the prism of an aspiring musician and how this affects love. Conor’s courtship of Raphina is chronicled through a great original soundtrack and the gradual unveiling on Conor’s troubled home life allows us to see how music has become his sanctuary as it was for his brother Brendan (Jack Reynor).
Brendan introduces Conor to the burgeoning 80s new wave music scene through a Duran Duran music video that helps to inspire his creation of the band. Later in the film, it is revealed that Conor’s success with the band is a cause of conflict for Brendan, as he views it as the latest example of how Conor overcame their tumultuous home life while he could not.
Being a film about love and music, my love for it was almost guaranteed.
Image: The Weinstein Company
