The Irish filmmaker behind 'Once' and 'Sing Street' returns with a drama, this time about a Dublin mom connecting to her son via a shared love of making music.
In “Flora and Son,” the title character gifts that dumpster guitar to her troubled kid, Max , but he doesn’t want it, as he’s more interested in making hip-hop on his laptop. So she begins taking guitar lessons herself, from an online teacher, Jeff , based in Los Angeles. Eventually, Flora and Max find a way to connect across their disparate musical tastes.
This film in particular explores the process of creating music and the connection it creates between people. How did you come to thatI think that the most beautiful thing about music is not where it goes in the end, but the process of the creativity. And we don’t really give enough credit to the doing of it. We’re so much about the result and about the success or failure of the result.
What’s the feeling in the room? Is it “Saturday Night Fever” or is it “The Commitments” or is it “Singin’ in the Rain”? And I didn’t want to repeat myself, and I also wanted to make a nice sound, and it had to be a plausible sound that these three characters would create together. And the characters kind of dictated that for me, which is that she’s going to know about 10 chords. Because we’ve seen her just learn guitar. So let’s not have her be like James Taylor all of a sudden or Carole King.
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