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Flora and Son

    • Director

      John Carney

    • Credits

      Producers
      Anthony Bregman,
      John Carney,
      Peter Cron,
      Rebecca O'Flanagan,
      Robert Walpole.

      Cinematographer:
      John Conroy

      Writer:
      John Carney

    • Principal Cast

      Eve Hewson,
      Josephn Gordon-Levitt,
      Orén Kinlan,
      Jack Reynor

  • Category

    Feature

Flora (Eve Hewson) is a young, working class nanny, a clubber and mother to teenage Max (Orén Kinlen). When she finds a guitar in a skip, she grabs it as a birthday present to him but his lack of interest leads her to give it a go herself and seek out online lessons from LA-based teacher, Jack (Joseph Gordon-Levitt). An online flirtation between this louche Dubliner and this sensitive Californian soon turns into something deeper, giving them both a sense of hope and showing Flora a way to reconnect with Max through music. John Carney (Once, Sing Street) has done it again, delivering an unashamedly tender and irresistible romance.

Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn

94 minutes, USA, Ireland, 2023, Colour

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