Sundance fave Hearts Beat Loud shows
maybe the best on-screen father-daughter relationship I’ve ever seen. Sam
(Kiersey Clemons) is the driven, focused one, about to start a pre-med program.
Her father, Frank (Nick Offerman), is the head-in-the-clouds dreamer unable to
relinquish a fading musical ambition and desire to start a band with his
daughter.
The plot stands the usual dynamic on its head, but the leads
who power everything else. Clemons stuns and proves again she’s one of the best
young actors currently working. And I love that Offerman is equally at home
playing woodworking manly men as music snob Brooklyn record store owners. This
could easily fall into unbearably cutesy, twee indie dramedy territory, but
Brett Haley’s film is joyous, heartfelt, and altogether wonderful. [Grade:
A]
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