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    Director John Carney sings a new song with 'Flora and Son'

    Over the years, John Carney has found many treasures in the dumpsters of Dublin, among them the idea that would inspire his new film, "Flora and Son." After fishing out a guitar amplifier that, to his surprise, worked fine, he imagined the neck of a guitar sticking out of the rubbish like Excalibur. Who would pull it out? Carney's mind began tripping across the ideas that would become a story ...
    by Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times Sep 22, 2023 7 minutes
    Eve Hewson in "Flora and Son."

    Over the years, John Carney has found many treasures in the dumpsters of Dublin, among them the idea that would inspire his new film, "Flora and Son."

    After fishing out a guitar amplifier that, to his surprise, worked fine, he imagined the neck of a guitar sticking out of the rubbish like Excalibur. Who would pull it out? Carney's mind began tripping across the ideas that would become a story of a single mother connecting with her delinquent son though music.

    Having premiered earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival, "Flora and Son" opens in theaters this week before launching on Apple TV+ on Sept. 29. The picture continues Carney's series of music-themed films he has specialized in since 2007's "Once," a romance about two struggling musicians that won an Oscar for the song "Falling Slowly." Since then, Carney has also made 2013's "Begin Again," starring Keira Knightley and Mark Ruffalo and set in the New York City record industry, and 2016's "Sing Street," about Dublin teens forming a band in the 1980s.

    In "Flora and Son," the title character () gifts that dumpster guitar to her troubled kid, Max

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