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Film review: POWER BALLAD
John Carney’s latest film continues his celebration of songs written from the heart.
Nick Jonas and Paul Rudd in Power Ballad Lionsgate Films About mid-way through co-writer/director John Carney’s Power Ballad , his protagonist, Rick Power (Paul Rudd)—an American-born musician now fronting a Dublin-based wedding band—spots a street busker singing “Falling Slowly,” the Oscar-winning song from Carney’s 2007 debut feature Once.
It’s a fun nod to the 20-year career Carney has built on movies like Begin Again , Sing Street and Flora and Son that celebrate the power of music, but the context in which the song appears also proves significant, as Rick witnesses a couple of teenagers…
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