Once - digg this
I suspect that everyone that has wanted to see Once has done so. I am a lame-o when it comes to getting to the theater and I'm not entirely sure that this came to my town anyway. In any case this seems like a fitting day to recommend an Irish movie.
I caught it on DVD this past week and I'll tell you that if the person that recommended this movie to me weren't in Texas I'd kiss him on his hairy facial cheek (so he should probably be glad he is). For those of you that don't appreciate my ancestral homeland's love of the F-bomb, you might want to steer clear (or possibly man up for 86 minutes). The beauty inherent in the music and the relationship between the guy and the girl far outweighs any objection you might have with the language.
For the uninitiated, this film is basically about a dude who makes music on the street for spare change (word of the day: busker) while helping his dad out at their hoover shoppe. He meets this girl and they hit it off and develop a relationship around making a demo tape for him. There are seeds of love there, but he has a girl that he's pinin' for and she has a hubby that she may want to get back with. I won't tell you how it turns out, see for yourself.
The actors are unknowns, picked I suppose for their real life talents and perhaps for the reason that they were these characters in a way most actors couldn't pull off. Also I imagine they worked on the cheap. In any event they done good.
The real star of this show as I said up top though, is the music. I need to get the soundtrack like yesterday. So go rent it. Now. That is all.
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I have the soundtrack and rented the movie - it's on my top 10 list of movies to buy once I switch over to Blu-Ray.
Glad you enjoyed it! We won't be going hi-def anytime soon, but that would be an excellent candidate.