of Chiara Viale’s debut feature.
What do you do when the life you’ve carefully been building for years crumbles before your eyes? This is the dilemma faced by our protagonist Adrian (Cilléin Mc Evoy) in Irish musical-drama
The New Music. A classical pianist who has an exciting musical career ahead of him, Adrian’s life is turned upside down after a diagnosis of Young Onset Parkinson’s Disease.
Unable to face the truth of his condition, Adrian flees to Dublin without telling his family and friends. He moves in with three lively punk band members, David (Patrick O’Brien), Will (Jack Fenton) and Jodie (Martina Babišová), whose approach to life greatly differs from what Adrian is used to. Initially, Adrian resists his housemates’ attempts to befriend him, and he scoffs at the music they play. He finds himself unable and unwilling to let go of the life that he has lost. However, he gradually begins to warm to his roommates and the imperfection of punk music. The film does not make a saint of Adrian – he can be needlessly rude and thoughtless, but through the support of his new-found friends he begins to let his guard down and cope with his illness.