Daffodils

2019
1h 33m

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5.8/10

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Biography Drama Musical Romance

A bittersweet love story told with beautiful re-imaginings of iconic New Zealand songs.A bittersweet love story told with beautiful re-imaginings of iconic New Zealand songs.A bittersweet love story told with beautiful re-imaginings of iconic New Zealand songs.

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IMDb RATING

5.8/10

424

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

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- 1 win & 2 nominations

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"Daffodils is a universally resonant love story that is also uniquely Kiwi and driven by the songs New Zealanders grew up with. It's so great that the filmmakers will get to share this story with audiences soon," said Annabelle Sheehan, then New Zealand Film Commission CEO.

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The Austin van belonging to Eric's father that was parked in the driveway when Eric had his going away party in 1966 bears plate number FG1312 that would indicate it was registered in the early 1970s.

Also, one would wonder how Eric could afford a relatively new Ford Zephyr 6 MkIII to drive around in when he worked as a store clerk as the Zephyr was a pretty upmarket model for the day.

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6/10

Parts of brilliance, parts disappointing

A very unusual combination of things in this film.

It really was a film of two halfs. The first part of the film set in the 1960s was charming and beautiful with two engaging characters and songs. Rose McIver shines even if her character could be frustrating at times.

In its second half the film doesn't work well and there were some horrible music choices and the singing by the lead male character was not up to par. Also I found Kimbra's voice pretty average right through.

Great to see Kiwi landscape and songs on screen but there were some songs which didn't work or were just kind of horrible and some great Kiwi songs were missed out (Be mine tonight or why does love do this to me would have been great additions).

It's worthwhile seeing for the first half of the movie which has moments of pure charm and brilliance, just wish some of the second half had been better executed.