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Chuck Chuck Baby (photo modified) |
Saturday, June 22, 2024, 3:30 PM, Roxie (not streaming)
Frameline’s description: “British writer/director Janis Pugh made a huge splash at the Toronto and Palm Springs International Film Festivals (to name a few) with Chuck Chuck Baby, a singular combination of a classic lesbian romance with an unconventional jukebox musical set in a Welsh chicken factory.
“Living with her ex-husband and his family, Helen (Sherlock’s Louise Brealey) finds relief in two places: the cathartic throes of music and, surprisingly, at the local chicken factory — thanks in large part to the tight-knit group of working-class women who toil alongside her. Hollowed by loss, Helen’s former crush Joanne (an ever-charming Annabel Scholey) returns to the small town.
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Chuck Chuck Baby (inside the factory) |
My thoughts: When you think of a setting for a musical love story, what could be better than a dreary chicken packing plant in a dead-end town in northern Wales? Sometimes bleak, sometimes effusively joyous, but always heartfelt, with a fabulous soundtrack. MUST SEE.
[Note: the upper photograph was cropped both from the sides and from the middle to fit the format constraints of the blog.]
• IMDb • Official website • Filmmaker • Twitter: @ChuckChuckFilm • Instagram • Facebook • preview • Rotten Tomatoes: 100% •
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