I save a prayer that this movie gets Oscar noms! One of the best of the year!

Rating: 10/10 (1 October 2016)

I know I need to relax, but I am in such cinematic elation with a movie that shows that there is always something there to remind me of the magical 80's New Wave Music. And in comes in the form of Writer-Director John Carney's exuberant "Sing Street". This movie is a love letter to the 80's New Wave Romanticism movement that I just can't get enough of. It stars Ferdia Walsh-Peelo as Connor, a bullied Irish teen who decides to form a band to impress an older girl he meets in the sidewalks of Dublin. He then befriends several quirky but likable teens who become his bandmates and form the band "Sing Street". Lucy Boynton plays Raphina, the older girl that Connor wants to give everything she wants; and that's no careless whisper. Carney nails both the direction and the screenplay of "Sing Street" with such feel- good and enlightening qualities that its take on me made me go back to that wonderful mid 80's musical time. Walsh-Peelo, Boynton, and the rest of the mostly young cast sure made me want to shout, shout, and let it all out that these young boys & girls on film are for real. "Sing Street" is pure movie gold, it is for Rio, and this much is true. I have no more words. ***** Excellent