A deep dive into 3 key songs from 'Flora and Son'
LOS ANGELES — The characters don't burst into song backed by invisible orchestras, but writer-director John Carney's "Flora and Son" is a musical in perhaps a truer sense: It's about people who are changed by music, so its many songs (mostly penned by Carney with singer-songwriter Gary Clark) are crucial to both story and characters. Three are so integral — and beautiful in their ways — that each deserves attention.
Flora, played with brio by Eve Hewson, is a single mother in Dublin with a fractious relationship with troublemaking teen son Max (Orén Kinlan). She rescues a guitar from a dumpster as a present for the boy,
