Love and feathers are in the air in this Welsh musical, which is an slightly unusual mix of drama and colourful songs that's quite likeable.
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00:00Love and Feathers are in the air in the Welsh musical romance Chuk Chuk Baby.
00:04Chicken factory worker Louise Brealey is stuck living with her ex-husband and his girlfriend,
00:09taking care of his dying mother, when teenage crush Annabel Scully returns to clear her childhood home
00:15and a connection forms between them.
00:17The film is an unusual take on the jukebox musical in that the songs are being played diegetically
00:22and the characters are actually singing along with it, which is a great way of showing how music can be
00:27emotionally resonant but also can be ways of expressing things that we can't actually say.
00:33I also genuinely enjoy the chemistry between Brealey and Scully as two people that come from
00:37damaged traumatic backgrounds, one of whom managed to escape and the other who hasn't,
00:43and that shared history between them is what brings them together but also threatens to tear them apart.
00:48It's definitely rough around the edges, a quirky mix of colourful poptimism and kitchen sink drama
00:53that shouldn't work as well as it does but I actually found to be surprisingly charming, funny and moving.