The Song of Sway Lake is the story of the orphaned remnants of the Sway family, set in the golden light of late summer on the Adirondack lake that bears their name. A tale of coming of age and of coming through grief, Ollie (Rory Culkin) and his young friend Nikolai (Robert Sheehan) plan to steal a priceless one-of-a-kind jazz age record from Ollie’s grandmother Charlie (Mary Beth Peil), and all three are confronted with their opposing ways of fixating on history.
Harvard College graduate Ethan Gold’s original score creates a quietly interwoven emotional force, driven by water and silence, and nostalgia for and release from the past. His original title song, arranged in the differing styles of the 1930s and 1940s and sung brilliantly by John Grant and the Staves, transports us to the glamorous time of America’s ascendance.
The soundtrack is available on all platforms in North America https://ffm.to/swaylake.
The film is available on US Video-on-Demand on September 25th (click here).
Join us Thursday evening for the film and Q&A, and we'll go out for drinks between screenings.
- Showings @ 7:20pm & 9:55pm
- Q&A with composer Ethan Gold AB '93 and director Ari Gold