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I am Katie Rich. I'm here with today's interview.

I got the chance to talk to John Carney, the director of Flora and Son.

It will be in theaters on September 22nd.

And then it will be on Apple TV Plus a week after that on September 29th.

It premiered earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival.

It was also in Toronto last week.

So John's really been on the road talking to people about this movie,

which is an interesting pseudo-pandemic era story about a mother in Dublin played by Eve Houston

who winds up taking guitar lessons via Zoom and sparking a sort of romance with a guitar teacher

played by Joseph Gordon Levitt.

But as we got into this movie and kind of talked to John about how all the pieces fell into place,

he got the idea for the Zoom lessons not from the pandemic,

but it was really only the pandemic that made him feel like people would believe the concept

of falling in love via Zoom, which is something we're now all too familiar with.

But the movie really started as a tribute to his mother.

He kind of talks about himself as being a little bit of a hell-raising teenager,

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