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Posted: 5/28/07 at 10:05pm
Since reading about it after Sundance, I finally saw "Once" today after a TON of positive (some ecstatic) reviews from critics. It has a 97% overall rating at RottenTomatoes.com and 100% from the major critics...
I pm'd the MovieMusicals.net guy about it, but they still haven't posted anything. But "Once" is as much of a musical as something like "Cabaret" (film) is. The characters perform the music "in their real world" but the story also gets pushed along by the songs.
"Once" is about a street singer in Dublin who meets a young Czech woman (Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova). The movie follows their tentative friendship/relationship as they perform their self-written songs (the actors actually performed and mostly wrote their own songs) and struggle to record them.
The music is rough and beautiful, the acting is natural, the songs are memorable, etc. It has a non-depressing but incredibly touching ending (I was smiling but tearing up), and REALLY sticks with you. The muddy DV photgrapy is gorgeous at times, murky at others.
This movie is soooooo worth seeking out and letting it just wash over you. I felt touched and entertained and never once condescended to. Check out the trailer:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox_searchlight/once/
Reviews:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/once/
I can't recommend this touching, pseudo-musical more highly!
I pm'd the MovieMusicals.net guy about it, but they still haven't posted anything. But "Once" is as much of a musical as something like "Cabaret" (film) is. The characters perform the music "in their real world" but the story also gets pushed along by the songs.
"Once" is about a street singer in Dublin who meets a young Czech woman (Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova). The movie follows their tentative friendship/relationship as they perform their self-written songs (the actors actually performed and mostly wrote their own songs) and struggle to record them.
The music is rough and beautiful, the acting is natural, the songs are memorable, etc. It has a non-depressing but incredibly touching ending (I was smiling but tearing up), and REALLY sticks with you. The muddy DV photgrapy is gorgeous at times, murky at others.
This movie is soooooo worth seeking out and letting it just wash over you. I felt touched and entertained and never once condescended to. Check out the trailer:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox_searchlight/once/
Reviews:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/once/
I can't recommend this touching, pseudo-musical more highly!
Updated On: 5/28/07 at 10:05 PM
