Get ready to relive 1980s Dublin with the rocking Sing Street in cinemas this Thursday
Internationally acclaimed Sing Street, the new musical from writer and director John Carney (Once, Begin Again) will be released in cinemas this St. Patrick's Day, Thursday 17th March.
Sing Street takes us back to 1980s Dublin where the recession forces 14-year-old Cosmo out of his comfortable private school and into survival mode at the inner-city public school where the kids are rough and the teachers are rougher. He turns to music and forms a ragtag band, shooting scrappy music videos, and finding refuge and love with the beautiful 16-year-old Raphina. Sing Street stars Ferdia Walsh- Peelo, Lucy Boynton, Jack Reynor (Glassland, Transformers: Age of Extinction), Maria Doyle Kennedy (Orphan Black, Byzantium) and Aidan Gillen (You're Ugly Too, Game of Thrones).
Sing Street has enjoyed great acclaim during its festival run, having premiered at Sundance Film Festival in January. It came home to Dublin in February when it opened the Audi Dublin International Film Festival. It also screened at SWSX in Austin Texas last Friday.
Producers of Sing Street are Martina Niland, Anthony Bregman, Paul Trijbits, Christian Grass and John Carney and the production companies are Cosmo Films, Likely Story and Filmwave.
Watch the trailer here.
What the critics have said:
‘Funny, joyful and effortlessly cool' - Nadine O'Regan, Sunday Business Post
‘****'-The Guardian