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The Song of Sway Lake
Through a series of dramatic and romantic events, this musical movie follows a young named Ollie Sway who is a music collector. He likes to keep the rare records. When he discovers that his family's estate contains a music record from 1978, he explains the topic for his only friend asking his help to steal the record.
23 September 1959, Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA
9 July 1938, Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
7 January 1988, Portlaoise, County Laois, Ireland
20 February 1989, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
21 July 1989, New York City, New York, USA
25 June 1940, Davenport, Iowa, USA
November 28, 2018
Between its music and its mood, there should be enough here to sway audiences into giving it the benefit of the doubt.October 17, 2018
There's a grating fairy tale vibe to the film, especially when Ollie and Nikolai's motivations are narrated through an almost "once upon a time" tone.September 20, 2018
"The Song of Sway Lake" is full of good ideas that never quite coalesce into an actual movie.October 15, 2018
"The Song of Sway Lake" is hardly what you'd call a satisfying movie.February 21, 2019
With scenes going from detective noir, to romance, to thriller, to dry comedy drama and then back again, it all becomes tiring, without a strong enough emotional depth to the characters to warrant much of the ruminative aspectOctober 17, 2018
Despite the beauty of the imagery, The Song of Sway Lake is a film that conflates that artsy, impressionistic cinematography with profoundly deep and emotional storytelling, as if one can turn the correlation into a kind of causation.September 21, 2018
The problem is that there's not much of a story to be enfolded by this atmosphere - or at least nothing that's compelling.October 19, 2018
The movie seems lost in its own haze of ethereal confusion.September 20, 2018
Filmmaker Gold might have been better off keeping a tight focus on the sparring interchanges between Ollie and his grandmother, for what they tell us about past and present.September 21, 2018
The attractiveness of the scenery, and a quiet, dignified performance by Ms. Peña in what could now be her last movie appearance, wind up being the main redeeming values here.September 21, 2018
In short, it's a mess -- an often lovely, atmospheric throwback with some clear personal flourishes, but a mess nonetheless.September 20, 2018
A clunky, lurching affair populated by barely sketched individuals who seem to be competing for a most-intolerable prize...