When is a movie a song? or a Song a Movie.. I guess when it is called "Once." Once won the academy award for the best song this year. it should have.. it devoted its whole movie to it.. It has just a little plot.. The girl is Russian, the Irish guy is too old.. they don't get it on.. but what a synthesis when the music is put together!
She has these wonderful eyes. She is married with a cute little daughter, living upstairs in a foreign country with a mother that does not speak a word of English. He is scruffy red haired Irishman who fixes Hoovers for a living and gets a penny or two from playing outside.. his own compositions. Its got a making of a fairy tale.. and it almost makes it.. we don't really know what happens in the end. I must be going deaf but I missed most of the lyrics until they were cleaned up in the studio..
I bought it on Ebay.. so if you are family I will get it to you.. if you haven't seen it yet.
: ) Pat
There is a certain magic to that film, which was shot for under 100K. If you look close at the guitar he plays, it is so worn in places, that there are holes in the wood, just like Willie Nelson's "Lucille". The opening scene where a street guy steals the musician's tips is a scream. There is alot of sexual tension, but in a way you are glad that they never hook up. Both of them are still in love with other people. It makes the movie more interesting, much more like real life. There is a sense of breathlessness about the movie, but it is very slow-paced. A great indie film.
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