Caro's choice: "Songbird" anticipates the 23rd wave of the coronavirus pandemic -

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  • "Songbird" plunges the viewer into the Los Angeles of 2024 where the Covid-19 would have mutated into Covid-23.

  • Two young people try to continue their relationship in a confined city placed under close surveillance.

  • This Michael Bay production is very effective in mixing the ingredients of a love story and a disaster film.

Americans call this type of film a "pandeflick" (pandemic film).

Adam Mason's

Songbird

is the first feature film to be shot during lockdown in Los Angeles.

It is available on VOD and, starting this Friday, on Amazon Prime.

The relationship between a courier and his girlfriend separated by confinement is at the center of an intrigue supposed to unfold in 2024 as the Covid has mutated and spiraled out of control.

KJ Apa and Sofia Carson share a relationship in a devastated country under high surveillance.

“I was inspired by what we were going through during this period and exaggerated it a bit.

I wanted to create a story of separated lovers that evokes those of 

Romeo and Juliet

and

Rapunzel, 

”says the director to the American site Screenrant.

Producer Michael Bay (

Transformers

) jumped at the chance to co-fund this disaster film where romance and suspense take the lion's share among stars like Demi Moore, Paul Walter Hauser (

The Richard Jewell Case

), Bradley Whitford and Peter Stormare.

Love each other during the pandemic

It feels so damn good to see two young people fight to save their romance in an action-packed, suspenseful movie.

Although, fortunately, we do not live in such dramatic circumstances as those of the heroes, we can easily identify with them.

“Their relationship was really thought out in relation to the confinement obligations.

It corresponds to what I was experiencing in my private life during the pandemic, ”insists the director.

This film, stuffed with great feelings and astonishing sequences in a deserted Los Angeles, does not revolutionize cinema, but it turns out to be an effective entertainment that we hope will not be visionary.

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