Tribeca Film Review: Let the Canary Sing

to 2008 Grammy-nominated dance albumEllwood, working with Lauper and her family, instead wants to find out how she became who she is – a resolutely self-assured and unique artist. So whileis undoubtedly a loving portrait of Lauper, it's also a very human portrait of a woman who has always been OK with walking away, or dusting herself down after personal and professional challenges.

That personal growth can only be shown by looking at the years before that hard-won self-awareness, and exactly why she wasn't interested in churning outfor the fifth time. It's in looking at her childhood in Brooklyn, then moving to Queens where she acquired that distinctive accent that she spent years trying to hide.

And it's also, subtly, about how the almost-cliched story of how her overnight success took years. It's not just in the music , or the time developing all those vocal idiosyncrasies and unlocking that four-octave range, but in having weathered so many storms by the time fame came that she knew how fickle and irrelevant it is. Even the title of the film is taken from an extraordinary court ruling that was the dawn after one of those storms.

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