A chance encounter between a disgraced music-business executive and a young singer-songwriter new to Manhattan turns into a promising collaboration between the two talents. (www.imdb.com)
Director: John Carney
Starring: Keira Knightley, Mark Ruffalo, James Corden, Hailee Steinfeld, Mos Def, Catherine Keener, Adam Levine
Mark Ruffalo and Keira Knightley are an unusual coupling, but a surprising fit for these awkward characters we see before us. Their back-stories lead them to each other. Knightley ends a relationship with rising music star Adam Levine and ends up performing in a bar for friend James Corden. Ruffalo ends up at the same bar, drowning his sorrows after being fired from his own record label. He listens, she plays, and a bond forms. Their uplifting, heart-warming journey sees them producing their own record across New York, with ambient sounds aplenty. The music is cool and the acting is genuine. It just feels right and it's bloody good fun. Relationships collapse and soar, but none of it is hard to watch. It fills your heart with soul. Ruffalo and Knightley are one of the greatest pairings ever to grace independent films.
4/5
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