A few days ago I re-watched the first Pitch Perfect movie in the company of my teenage niece, and was reminded just how great the audition montage scene is. A celebration of pure pop, this cover of Kelly Clarkson’s Since You Been Gone is skillfull, funny, cheesy of course, but mainly uplifting – just the thing for a drizzly Wednesday.
Feel free to post something uplifting.
*hur-hur
Another audition scene, this time from The Belier Family, a wonderful French film we saw recently.
The girl singing is hoping to get a place at music school in Paris. At the back are her family, all of whom are deaf and communicate with sign language.
It’s almost the final scene of the movie and in context is very moving.
The German subtitles will doubtless increase your enjoyment. The song is by the 70s French pop icon Michel Sardou.
Sadly, the only thing that came close to being uplifted by that was the contents of my stomach 😉
You hard-hearted thing!
I’m with KFD on this – I found it very moving, and it was a good job I was already chopping onions in a very dusty environment when this came on. Mum’s face…sheesh! *swallows hard
Anyone point me to an English translation?
Its not music and I have posted it before, but this father and son conversation after the events in Paris renews my faith in humanity every time I see it.
Aw.
This video is SO Afterword.
Hello Beany!
It’s arguably no more ridiculous than four blokes playing bass harmonicas, which is what you get on the appalling old Pet Sounds* record.
(*so happy to have been reprogrammed. Hello trees, hello birds….)
I love the two Pitch Perfect movies.
Ooh, this is uplifting me at the moment. Jill Scott, full force. She wants some ‘sugar in her bowl’!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-18cdm010Uk
Great! And she’s clearly following in the footsteps of Millie Jackson in terms of filthy chat.