An awesome and ridiculous film that leaves you thrilled beyond the point of your natural endurance
2012
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Music
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Always been a fan but never seen them live. I was ecstatic to be part of this epic event. WOW!
London,
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Dir: Jamie J Johnson.
Description: Feel good popumentary following four acts competing at the 2007 Junior Eurovision Song Contest in Rotterdam, the annual competition for ages 10-15. To be eligible, competitors must write and sing their own compositions, winning through national heats for the honour of representing their country. Gaining exclusive access to the featured acts - four-piece band Trust from Belgium, Mariam from Georgia, Giorgos from Cyprus and 14-year-old Marina from the Bulgaria girl group Bon Bon - the film reveals the intense pressure placed upon these youngsters by their countrymen and -women to win as they contend with all of the usual growing pains.
Country: UK. 2008. 93mins
Sonic youth: one of the finalists in Junior Eurovision
Jamie Jay Johnson’s debut documentary feature should be awful but it isn’t. In fact, it’s often highly enjoyable as he follows the 17 finalists, aged 10 to 15, of the fifth Junior Eurovision Song contest in Rotterdam. Those who don’t believe such a contest exists will be instantly disabused — and if the film will hardly have them wetting themselves, as the Dutch master of ceremony suggests, at least it avoids either fawning over or patronising the oddball contestants.
The fact is that a good number of the young participants, from poor families in countries such as Belarus and Georgia, desperately need a bit of success. Of course, their singing is not very good but Johnson manages to make you feel for them.
Aesthetically, it may be an awful event but Sounds Like Teen Spirit takes that in and still makes you watch it with pleasure — and a little pain too.
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