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The largest language school within Vallès Oriental is pleased to provide you with this review, crosswords and contest. Enjoy the film!!! Sunshine on Leith – Review Directed by Dexter Fletcher and featuring the songs of acclaimed Scottish folk-pop act The Proclaimers (whose second album’s title track gives the film its name, and whose biggest hit ‘I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)’ has been embraced by popular culture), Sunshine on Leith is a fun, extravagant - yet, occasionally, subtle - musical, replete with all the drama and emotion that the genre necessitates. The story follows lifelong best friends Davy and Ally, played by George MacKay and Kevin Guthrie respectively, as they return from a tour of duty in Afghanistan to their homes and families in Edinburgh. Ally’s girlfriend Liz, Davy’s sister (Freya Mavor), is a nurse; she introduces Davy to her English friend, Yvonne (Antonia Thomas) at a pub on their first night back, and the two begin a romantic relationship, as both Davy and Ally adjust to their return. Meanwhile, Davy’s father Robert ‘Rab’ Henshaw (Peter Mullan) discovers that he has a daughter he has never met, much to the shock of his wife Jean (Jane Horrocks). Thus, a web of stories is spun, upon which the cast do The Proclaimers proud with some sensitive and engaging translations of their songs. Amid all the drama - the fights and reconciliations, proposals and hospitalisations - is a warm, beating heart: given that the film is so often described as Scotland’s (and The Proclaimers’) very own Mamma Mia, that should come as no real surprise. .

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