Sunday, April 17, 2022

Movie Review: Finding You (2021). Amazon Prime.

A young woman goes to Ireland for a "study abroad" break before retrying her violin audition for a music conservatory in New York.  While there, despite her resistance and skepticism, she falls for a young action-film movie star trapped in his celebrity bubble. 

 

In the meantime, she is also mentored and taught about life and music by an old drunken Irish fiddle player, and becomes involved in straightening out a family tragedy for an angry elderly woman (Vanessa Redgrave).  

 

It's all fairly contrived, but still sweet and entertaining.  Recommended, if you like rom-coms and coming of age stories.  

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