Directed by:
Emma WestenbergScreenplay:
Ruby CasterCinematography:
Christopher RipleyComposer:
Raven AartsenCast:
Ewan McGregor, Clara McGregor, Kim Zimmer, Devyn McDowell, Travis Hammer, Jake Weary, Vera Bulder, J. Nathan Simmons, Jacob BrownePlots(1)
In hopes of reconnecting with his estranged child, a father (Ewan McGregor) embarks on an impromptu road trip with his now-adult daughter (Clara McGregor) after she has a near-fatal drug overdose. He is planning to take her to rehab - though she doesn’t know that. En route to their destination of Santa Fe, New Mexico, and encountering an eccentric array of characters along the way, the two are forced to confront the issues of their past, the trip proving less about the road that they’re on, and more about the troubled one from their past. (Icon Film Distribution)
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With its subject matter, You Sing Loud, I Sing Louder is hackneyed low-key, low-budget banality that can’t be faulted much in its details and it’s interesting because it brings Ewan McGregor and his real-life daughter Clara McGregor together in front of the camera as the characters of a man and his daughter. [Karlovy Vary International Film Festival]
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This intimate desert road-movie is built on the performances of its two protagonists, with McGregor’s real-life daughter playing his on-screen daughter, which adds a notable extra layer to the film. At least in the first half, however, the film takes a very superficial approach to the relationship between the two characters, so its dominant elements are rather sentimental flashbacks, frequent pee breaks and occasional humorous encounters with supporting characters representing the usual clichés associated with the American South. Thanks to McGregor’s presence, the motif of drug withdrawals will be familiar to Trainspotting fans (and there’s also a train). You will thus have to wait for the proper screaming, remorse and mutual catharsis, but the whole extraordinary journey and emotional redemption at the end make it worthwhile.
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Even though intimate stories about the reconnection between an estranged parent and offspring are a feature in practically every edition of the festival, one I sometimes tire of with its thematic weariness, Second Chance successfully managed to break out of this lethargy and totally suited me. It almost teeters on the edge of melodrama, almost. But it never falls over that edge. The chemistry of characters of the father and daughter played by a real-life father-daughter duo works very well. There's nothing much to fault about it. A nice little film. [KVIFF 2023]
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