Coal Miner's Daughter 4K 1980 Ultra HD 2160p

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A biography of the famous singer Loretta Lynn, who rose from Kentucky poverty to country music stardom. The singer had many unpleasant moments in her life: struggling with a drug addiction, a nervous breakdown, marital troubles, and the death of her best friend.

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A mountain mining town is not the best place for a dreamy girl to be born. Loretta did not choose her fate. An uncomfortable childhood in Kentucky, where all families have many children and men become disabled at the age of forty from coal dust accumulation in their lungs. Early marriage. Lack of education. Early motherhood. But the hardships of life did not embitter Loretta. Her father's favorite child and the beloved wife of the best man in the world, she herself became a source of love for many, many people.

Michael Apted adapted country star Loretta Lynn's memoirs into a classic biographical melodrama. But this latest take on the American dream has all the charm and faith you'd expect. It's no surprise that the film was a huge hit when it came out and was up for a bunch of awards. The unpretentious, even somewhat overly straightforward story is captivating thanks to the performances of Sissy Spacek and Tommy Lee Jones, who recreated the relationship between Loretta and her husband Doolittle on screen. It cannot be said that the turmoil of family life between two people who love each other is particularly compelling, but the notorious “magic” that arose between the actors did the job. For Spacek, this is the best of her three most famous roles, along with The Badlands and Carrie. Skillfully using her unusual appearance, she looks natural both in the dress of a 13-year-old teenager and in the pretentious outfit of an established star on the stage of the famous festival in Nashville.

Actually, there isn't that much music in the film. The lion's share of the time is devoted to the everyday life of childhood in the coal mines and the family squabbles that inevitably arise with the advent of fame. The infrequent guitar playing in the film makes “The Coal Miner's Daughter” even more universal in its presentation than the recent “Walk the Line” about Johnny Cash and June Carter. Eptide conveyed the very spirit of the amateur melodies popular among the inhabitants of single-story America through his style. Therefore, the template of a person who “made himself” is projected through the aspirations of the stereotypical “man of the people.” And Loretta Lynn is the very embodiment of the ideal of a healthy spirit, albeit in a fragile body. Stereotypes cease to be stereotypes. The predictable plot does not convey the stereotypical nature of the genre, but rather reminds us of the “sameness” of destinies in the same rhythms coming from the same houses. But the “sameness” is not accidentally put in quotation marks. There are enough nuances for everyone.

The expected drama, in the course of the narrative, turns into a melodrama. The finale, devoid of any attempts to bring the biographies of real-life characters to a rational conclusion of contrived aesthetics, is magnificent. The film's division into two parts detracts from the overall impression. The first hour is more interesting. The director finds original solutions and the right tone for a leisurely introduction to his characters in the mining world, where poverty and disease do not interfere with the almost pastoral idyll. The moving, lyrical scene of Loretta's farewell to her father on the platform marks not only the heroine's transition to a different age, but also a different narrative style. The action begins to jump around in fragments, and the plot thread periodically slips out of the needle's eye. The appearance of another country legend, Patsy Cline, played as always by the magnificent Beverly D'Angelo, does not add any new color. However, Sissy Spacek's soulful performance, which deservedly won her an Oscar, smooths out the rough edges and puts Coal Miner's Daughter on the list of classic films worth watching again and again.