‘Flora And Son’ Songwriter-Composer Gary Clark On How He And Director John Carney Found The High Life – Sound & Screen Film
deadline.comIn Apple Original Films’ Flora and Son, single mom Flora (Eve Hewson) is at a loss about what to do with her rebellious teenage son Max (Orén Kinlan).
Encouraged by the police to find Max a hobby, Flora tries to occupy him with a beat-up acoustic guitar. With the help of a washed-up L.A.
musician (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), Flora and Max discover the transformative power of music. In order to build up believable chemistry between its leads in the film and tenderize the relationship between mother and son, songwriter and composer Gary Clark first had to build a relationship with director John Carney, a feat Clark would find was three decades in the making.
At Deadline’s Sound & Screen: Film event, Clark reflected on the oddly coincidental meeting that set their now frequent collaboration partnership on full course. “When John first called me, we’d never met, and the only thing that I’d seen [of his] was Once. … He then made this really semi-autobiographical [movie] called Sing Street about his school band, and so the big theme in that movie is that his brother turned him onto a lot of music,” Clark said. “And one of the records that he’d turned onto was my band’s first album that we made in 1987 or something.
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