But damn is she somethin’ — Kaki King — We just watched “August Rush”, whose contrived plot is almost as unbearable as the beauty of the undiluted love and music, which are transportive in places, however saccharine at times. The actors are all really musicians, save for the main character, who actually played his pieces though was overdubbed and had hand-double moments all by this woman Kaki King, a white girl from Atlanta.  Simply amazing.  No video of hers quite captures the movie’s magic, but if you like it, noodle about after her;  it’s worth it.  And the joy on the boy character’s face at his creating this music seems utterly genuine, his faking the fingering as real as any faker I’ve ever seen (because it IS real — to a point) — which may sound like damning with faint praise but is entirely other;  give him more than the 6 months it took him to learn this from scratch and he probably could play it for real for real …  Wowza.

 

 Adam