Swing

Swing is the story of working-class friends who escape their bleak Liverpool lives to launch a swing band. Martin (Hugo Speer) spends two years in jail for his brother. When he gets out, he is handed two years of unopened love letters and a piece of advice: get a job or end up back in jail. Nothing ...more

There is a joyous, fairy tale mirthfulness to this old fashioned "let's start a band and put on a show" movie that bears the disbelief-bending hallmarks of magical realism commonly found in Latin American folk tales (see Woman on Top for an example). But that lighthearted tone is darkened, nearly irrevocably, in the last third of Swing by forces working against the charming hero, played with a beguiling smile by Hugo Speer. An amount of tension is necessary in a film to make the good luck that ...more