MSN MOVIES: “Sound It Out” was the unexpected pure pleasure of this year’s indie documentaries at SXSW”
March 26th, 2011 | Published in Reviews
Original article on MSN movies by James Rocchi
While the film festival portion of South by Southwest technically ended on the Tuesday of last week so the music festival could kick off, films kept playing, and debuting, throughout the week. I recapped some of the picks of the early part of the fest last week, but here are some more of the winners — and losers — from SXSW.
“Sound It Out”: An unexpected pleasure, and entirely winning. A portrait of the lone independent record shop in the northeastern England town of Teesside, “Sound It Out” promises “High Fidelity“-style meditations on music and maleness, but director Jeanie Finlay wisely shows us much, much more in a portrait of community in tough times and how the silly ephemera of pop music is often the only thing we’ve got to hold on to in a changing world. Gorgeously shot, loaded with ace tunes and full of real people you come to know and like, “Sound It Out” was the unexpected pure pleasure of this year’s indie documentaries at SXSW.