Little Voice

Traumatised, timorous and silent since the death of her father, young Laura, called Little Voice, lives in a less than romantic English port city with her matronly, liquor-loving, garrulous mother Mari. The widow is on the lookout for a handsome, well-to-do suitor and thinks she has come upon him in the person of Ray Say, a spectacularly unsuccessful talent scout. But when he hears Little Voice singing in her room, he turns all his efforts to staging a hit show with his new “discovery”. The story of Little Voice got rave reviews on the London stage before it was turned into a movie with the same protagonist and singer, Jane Horrocks, who is joined here by a prominent, award-winning cast. The story is a mixture of razor-sharp humour, substantial entertainment and gripping emotional entanglements full of surprising twists. It quickly captured the hearts of the audience at this year’s Berlinale.