It’s extremely rare that I switch off a DVD or
leave a cinema screening before the end of a film, but with Sunshine
on Leith (2013) I was more than happy to make an exception. I managed
to struggle through the first 25 minutes before I gave up on this ridiculously
embarrassing piece of gobbledygook!
I would question the ambiguity of film? Perhaps
director Dexter Fletcher (Wild Bill 2012) and writer Stephen
Greenhorn, who adapted his own musical, meant it as a light hearted ‘feel
good’, what ever that means, comedy musical? Sorry it didn’t work, no one could
sing and it wasn’t funny! Perhaps it was meant to be a magical realist fairy
tale, but nothing in it spouted wings! Watching the first 25 minutes was a
twee, cringe worthy experience, which I doubt improved much as the film went
on. It may have hoodwinked most people but I would be happy to walk 500 miles
to avoid ever seeing any part of this film again………
