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The Song of Sway Lake
A dramatic-romantic movie that follows a young named Ollie Sway who is a music collector having an obsession of collecting musical records. Suddenly, he knows that his family has a rare record from the year of 1978. He decided to steal it with the help of his only friend who is a rowdy Russian drifter.












23 September 1959, Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA

21 July 1989, New York City, New York, USA



20 February 1989, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

25 June 1940, Davenport, Iowa, USA

9 July 1938, Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA

7 January 1988, Portlaoise, County Laois, Ireland


October 15, 2018
"The Song of Sway Lake" is hardly what you'd call a satisfying movie.
September 20, 2018
"The Song of Sway Lake" is full of good ideas that never quite coalesce into an actual movie.
September 21, 2018
In short, it's a mess -- an often lovely, atmospheric throwback with some clear personal flourishes, but a mess nonetheless.
November 28, 2018
Between its music and its mood, there should be enough here to sway audiences into giving it the benefit of the doubt.
September 21, 2018
The attractiveness of the scenery, and a quiet, dignified performance by Ms. Peña in what could now be her last movie appearance, wind up being the main redeeming values here.
October 19, 2018
The movie seems lost in its own haze of ethereal confusion.
September 20, 2018
Filmmaker Gold might have been better off keeping a tight focus on the sparring interchanges between Ollie and his grandmother, for what they tell us about past and present.
October 17, 2018
There's a grating fairy tale vibe to the film, especially when Ollie and Nikolai's motivations are narrated through an almost "once upon a time" tone.
September 20, 2018
A clunky, lurching affair populated by barely sketched individuals who seem to be competing for a most-intolerable prize...
October 17, 2018
Despite the beauty of the imagery, The Song of Sway Lake is a film that conflates that artsy, impressionistic cinematography with profoundly deep and emotional storytelling, as if one can turn the correlation into a kind of causation.
February 21, 2019
With scenes going from detective noir, to romance, to thriller, to dry comedy drama and then back again, it all becomes tiring, without a strong enough emotional depth to the characters to warrant much of the ruminative aspect
September 21, 2018
The problem is that there's not much of a story to be enfolded by this atmosphere - or at least nothing that's compelling.