Movie No. 163 (2013): ONCE
Once (2006)
Director: John Carney
Cast: Glen Hansard, Marketa Irglova
The film tells the eventful week of writing, rehearsing, and recording songs after a busker (the guy) and a flower girl (an immigrant from Czech Republic) accidentally bumped into each other in one of the busy streets of Dublin. That vacuum cleaner! We learn about the separate love stories of the guy and the girl from the songs they've written and recorded. The question that hangs is: did they fall in love with each other? The answer doesn't matter. That's the good thing about this film. It doesn't spoon-feed. It's for the audience to decide on the basis of what the see and hear.
Director: John Carney
Cast: Glen Hansard, Marketa Irglova
The film tells the eventful week of writing, rehearsing, and recording songs after a busker (the guy) and a flower girl (an immigrant from Czech Republic) accidentally bumped into each other in one of the busy streets of Dublin. That vacuum cleaner! We learn about the separate love stories of the guy and the girl from the songs they've written and recorded. The question that hangs is: did they fall in love with each other? The answer doesn't matter. That's the good thing about this film. It doesn't spoon-feed. It's for the audience to decide on the basis of what the see and hear.
Falling Slowly. What a song! For me, this ranks among the best movie themes ever written. It's winning the Academy Awards for Best Original Song was just a bonus. Part of the success of the movie was this song. Of course, the script was well-written.
By the way, the current Tony Award-winning Broadway musical based on this movie is a good as the movie version.
Rating: 4.0/4.0
Date seen: September 1, 2013
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