THEl surprise movie of the Oscar 2022 airs on Sky Cinema One at 9.15 pm tonight (streaming on Now). Named in three categories, Coda – The signs of the heart – directed by Sian Heder (Little America) – is the remake of the French The Belier familyand tells with irony, emotion and poetry the story of a deaf-mute family and of the only hearing daughter, the teen Rubypassionate about singing.
A passion that contrasts with family disability and which at first is not understood. Ruby doesn’t give up and pursues his dream, even if one day he will find himself at a crossroads.
5 reasons to see Coda – The signs of the heart
1. The courageous journey of a teenager
In Queue (acronym for Child of Deaf Adults, children of deaf and dumb parents) 17-year-old Ruby (Emilia Jones)the only hearing person in the family, is a teenager out of the ordinary: before going to school she gets up at three in the morning to help on the boat father Frank (Troy Kotsur) and brother Leo (Daniel Durrant) fishermen.
His classmates know the family situation of the girl who invariably comes bullied. It seems that his only weapon of psychological support in both music and singingeven if he never thought of a future in that direction.
But when Ruby joins the school choir and meets the master Bernardo (Eugenio Debez) begins a new path in life, to look beyond the familyperhaps to project itself to Berklee college of Boston and don’t think about fishing on the Massachusetts coast.
Emilia Jones.
2. The disruptive force of music
Will Ruby’s dream come true? Ever since it exploded in her love for music manages to open up to his own feelingsto confront others, yes falls in love of the choir mate Milesshe becomes more confident and above all she is able to talk about the plan to go to college to the family.
Music becomes the central element of the filmvehicle for expressing emotions, and here the emotion is disruptive because we are in a context in which i deaf cannot hear the notes. But the director subverts the cards and creates a magic: it is the language of signs to become music and pure emotion.
Emilia Jones (Ruby), Marlee Matlin (mom Jackie) and Tony Kotsur (dad Frank).
3. Tail – The signs of the heart: a journey towards freedom
Mother Jackie (Marlee Matlin) is grumpy with Ruby and doesn’t believe in her dreamwould not want to let her go because she would lose her child, but above all she would lose those who up to that moment supported her as an interpreter, who facilitated communication with the outside of the family.
Maybe Ruby doesn’t deserve to be put in the center of the core for once? Maybe he doesn’t deserve to enjoy normality and savor it beauty of freedom? Like music, it also emerges the love of a united familythat despite the pain and difficulties it looks beyond itself and the barriers of disability.
The cast of “Coda – The signs of the heart”
4. A stellar cast led by Oscar winner Marlee Matlin
To play the family Rossiprotagonist of Queue, are the extraordinary interpreters, deaf and hard of hearing. Among these it stands out Marlee Matlin, awarded an Oscar in 1987 for Sons of a lesser god: still today it is the youngest performer in the Best Actress category to have won the statuette. She was 21 at the time, and she also won the heart of William Hurtrecently passed away.
Ruby is played by the talented Emilia Jonesto the best known in the role of Kinsey Locke in the Netflix fantasy series Locke & Keyswhile his father Frank gives Troy Katsur, nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Miles is fiance Ferdia Walsh-Peelopreviously seen as King Richard in Vikings.
5. Tail: The awards won. And now it’s up to the Oscar
The triumphal journey of Queue it started from Sundance where he won the Grand Jury Prizethe Audience Award, the Special Award for the cast and the Best Director Award in the drama section. It recently conquered the SAG Award for Best cast beating giants like Belfast And Don’t Look Up and the BAFTA for Best Non-Original Screenplay and for the interpretation of Troy Katsus.
The cast at the SAG Awards. (Getty Images)
At the Oscars the film is nominated in three categories: Best Film, Best Non-Original Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor. He will succeed Troy Kotsur to get away with the interpreters of Belfast, The power of the dog And Being Ricardos? He has all the cards.
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