Northern Soul

(Elaine Constantine/2012/UK)

This is a film about friendship, the beginning, the middle, the end and the rebirth of friendship and it wears the coat of the Northern Soul scene in 1970’s England to tell its story. The first half hour or so is excellent. Constantine perfectly relates the excitement of being young and discovering something that makes more sense to you than anything else in your life. The music, the clothes, the gritty northern working class life is all present and correct. The gradual immersion in the “scene” is very good. The story it goes on to tell of two lads with shared love of the music and dreams of it being their path from rags to riches is solid, well told and never lags. Well worth a watch.

(3/5)