Music and Lyrics

The Music and Lyrics is a good movie of the kind I have not seen for a long time. This movie is fantastic in so many ways. Firstly it tells a good story. In New York, the washed-up singer Alex Fletcher has a decadent career singing his old hits in amusement parks, school reunions or dinner parties to survive. In the 80’s, he was a successful singer of the band POP with Collin Thompson, but when his partner split; his solo-career was a complete failure. His manager and friend Chris Riley schedules a meeting with the successful teen singer Cora and Alex has a chance to be promoted in a show if he delivers a new song for Cora’s concert in the end of the week. Alex has difficulties to put lyrics in his melody, but he accidentally discovers Sophie Fisher, who is temporarily watering his plants and proves to be a sensitive poet and efficient lyricist. Their song is approved by Cora, but they disagree about her interpretation, while they fall in love for each other. It is a story about true love which moves me deeply. Secondly, the songs in the movie are all terrific including the songs Alex sing in the shows alone and the classical song Alex and Sophie create together. Thirdly, the images of the movie are handled perfectly well; the gestures and the clothes of the actors are good. It is a wonderful movie, and you should have a look at it.