John Carneyhas nailed the art of being a musical underdog. After the huge Oscar-winning indie hit Once, Carney has made plenty of great, underseen musicals that deserve more appreciation. Carney’s movies beautifully explore the power of music in the lives of normal, everyday people, and how impactful something as simple as a song can be on a person. Once gave us a pair of musicians going from busking to making an album together. 2013’s Begin Again followed a budding songwriter trying to get a break. The cult favorite Sing Streethad a boy forming a band just to impress a girl, while 2023’s Flora and Son showed a mother attempting to connect with her son through music. Carney doesn’t make grand musical movies. More importantly, he makes movies about how music can be grand in people’s lives.
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