Saturday, 16 March 2024

Once (2007 John Carney & scr)

Busker Glen Hansard meets immigrant Markéta Irglová on the streets of Dublin and they begin to make music together. Heart-warming and witty (e.g. her walking along leading her hoover). And the songs are great, particularly the one she sings on the way home in a long take. 'Falling Slowly' won the Oscar.

The camerawork is amusingly primitive - the film had a budget of €30.

That extract from Mendelssohn 'Song Without Words' is grand, so it is, so it is.

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