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Sing Street is a title which very nearly put me off this film as it’s dreadful and makes it sound like it’s going to be the next Pitch Perfect (I know they’re successful films, but I can’t stand them). Thankfully, while there’s music featuring within, it’s not insipid.
With a cast led by Aiden Gillen (The Wire, Queer As Folk, The Dark Knight Rises) and Maria Doyle Kennedy (The Conjuring 2, The Commitments), the film centres around a boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s, who escapes his strained family life by starting a band and moving to London.
Written and directed by John Carney (Once, Begin Again), while I keep meaning to get round to watching Once, and while Begin Again really doesn’t grab me, Sing Street did from the moment the trailer began. It looks like a great comedy and I’m very much looking forward to it.
The cast also includes Jack Reynor, Lucy Boynton, Kelly Thornton, Lydia McGuinness, Kyle Bradley Donaldson, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Mark McKenna and Pádraig J Dunne, and the film is released in the UK on March 18th.
Check out the trailer below and click on the above image for the full-size version:
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