Ewan McGregor On Co-Starring With Daughter Clara In ‘You Sing Loud, I Sing Louder’: “It Made Me Very Proud That She Could Take A Painful Experience And Turn It Into Art” – Karlovy Vary Int’l Film Festival
deadline.comBrave is the man who will sign up for a real-life father-daughter road movie set the aftermath of an acrimonious divorce, but Ewan McGregor his no regrets about pairing up with his eldest child — by his first wife — for You Sing Loud, I Sing Louder, which screened as a tribute to the actor in Karlovy Vary.
Set in a dreamlike American West, and very far removed from the specifics of the McGregors’ own personal situation, it finds a reformed alcoholic dad trying to reconnect with his offspring after collecting her from hospital.
She thinks they’re off to visit an artist friend of her father’s, but the truth is that, in a bid to absolve himself of many years’ worth of guilt, he’s taking her to rehab.
Directed by Emma Westenberg, it is a narratively light but emotionally intense journey about a co-dependent and somewhat competitive relationship that, if left unchecked, will only end in tragedy.
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