As the manager of a girl band looking, Dave Lovelace (Chris O’Dowd) teaches the four Aboriginal singers the distinction between country western and soul music: both are about loss, but in country western, they just resign themselves to it and whine. In soul, they yearn to get back what they had. In 1968 Australia, this useful information helps to catalyze these young women; they switch to soul, come of age, break some ethnic barriers, leaving behind family, including a child for opportunities in Viet Nam singing for American troops. That child, Tony Briggs, wrote a stage play based on the adventures of his brave mom and her pals, and now a movie—in fact, the feel good movie of the year-- The Sapphires has dazzled audiences, making its rounds through various festivals including last year’s Cannes.
Tony Briggs told me he barely believed Harvey Weinstein at Cannes, when he said, this little movie is big. Noting Laurel Briggs eying the women as they performed “I Heard it Through the Grapevine,” I asked, did she feel like she wanted to jump on stage with The Sapphires and do her old moves. “We are a little too old for that, “ she said, “but we still sing the song my grandmother translated into our language about Moses and the water for family.”
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