2012 · comedy · drama · music
The Sapphires
Directed by Wayne Blair1h 43m2012
It's 1968, and four young, talented Australian Aboriginal girls learn about love, friendship, and war when they entertain the US troops in Vietnam as singing group The Sapphires.
Our read: The Sapphires (2012) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded comedy · drama · music entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, measured comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- cosy
- brisk
- redemptive
- tender
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“You want feel-good soul music, sisterhood, and Vietnam-era heart.”
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