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Awards
2008 Academy Award Nominee:
- Best Original Song (Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova)
Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
A modern day musical set on the streets of Dublin, starring Glen Hansard from the Irish band The Frames and featuring an unforgettable soundtrack, Once tells the story of a street musician and a Czech immigrant during an eventful week as they write, rehearse, and record songs that reveal their unique love story.
Review:
"[A] wonderful film that is one of the year's best." Chicago Sun-Times
Review:
"In its brief running time, writer-director John Carney does something both profound and unexpected: He reinvents the movie musical as a genre of swooning rock 'n' roll realism." Boston Globe
Review:
"Are you looking for a little film you can make your own, an enchanting, unpretentious blend of music and romance you can watch forever? If you do, Once is about to come into your life and make it whole." The Los Angeles Times
Review:
"Told with the simplicity of a Chaplin film (more than once I was reminded of City Lights), Once has the tentative and unpredictable amble of a chance encounter rather than the absolute and overdetermined structure of a Hollywood film." Philadelphia Inquirer
Review:
"Once proves once and for all that imagination trumps big bucks." San Francisco Chronicle
Review:
"Once makes a persuasive case that the real future of the movie musical may lie not in splashy grandeur but in modesty and understatement." A.O. Scott, The New York Times
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Average customer rating based on 3 comments:
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anita bermont, January 30, 2008 (view all comments by anita bermont)
This was the some of the sweetest time I have spent in front of a screen in a long time! It touched on so many vulnerable aspects of the human condition and....the musical performances were icing on the cake. It's "okay" to feel this good while being entertained when emotion is not being trivialized and there is more than just a happy ending!
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Larry Robinson, January 30, 2008 (view all comments by Larry Robinson)
This movie just comes out of nowhere and grabs you. A great story and great music.
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Grady Harp, December 21, 2007 (view all comments by Grady Harp)
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There is much to love about the quirky little film ONCE: it is honest, simple, transparent, and made with a low budget and lots of love. The leading characters are gentle people who happen to sing as well as act and the love story they create is a fragile little tale that remains in the air as a nice memory after the credits are past.
A Dublin busker (Glen Hansard) is a songwriter and singer who plies his music on the streets when his is not helping his warmly generous father (Bill Hodnett) in his vacuum repair shop: his songs reflect a ruptured love affair and are sensitively poignant. Along comes a Czech girl (Markéta Irglová) who sells flowers on the streets but is impressed enough with the lad's music to stop, listen, and even put ten cents in his case. The two strike up a friendship (the girl plays the piano in a music shop during lunch hour) and in time these two bruised people interact in the wavelength of their love of music. The lad meets the girl's daughter and mother (Danuse Ktrestova) - the father of the child is still in the Czech Republic -, they all become friends, and with the help of a few fellow musicians they cut a recording that hopefully will launch the lad's career in a trip to London. The mood of the extemporaneous feeling piece is one of developing love that can only happen once, especially given the histories of each of the two musicians.
Writer/director John Carney demonstrates how a simple story can be made into a touching film for under $150,000. and on a shooting schedule of 17 days. The featurettes have just as much tenderness in outlining the production of the film as the film itself. The only problem with the film for this viewer is the music, which seems redundant and repetitive: for those who favor this type of music this will not be a 'flaw'. It is admirable that films like this are being made, restoring our faith in honest craftsmanship backed by warmth of intent.
Grady Harp
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Product Details
- UPC:
- 00024543477594
- Studio:
- Fox Home Entertainment
- Subject:
- Feature films.
- Credits:
- Hansard, Glen
- Subject:
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Subject:
- Ireland
- Subject:
- Foreign films.
- Subject:
- Motion pictures, Irish
- Subject:
- Musical films
- Subject:
- Romance films
- Subject:
- Musicians
- Subject:
- Man-woman relationships
- Subject:
- Drama
- Subject:
- Love
- Subject:
- Feature Film Drama
- Publication Date:
- 2007-12-18
- Binding:
- DVD
- Rating:
- DVD Features:
- Additional Footage, Color, Director Cast Commentary, SensorMatic, Widescreen
- Region:
- US and Canada
