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Movie Reviews of Once
Movie Review: "When Your Minds Made Up" ~ Emotional Scars, Self-Exploration And The Healing Power Of The Creative Process
Summary: 5 Stars
The '07 release 'Once' certainly won't blow you away with state-of-the-art production values. In fact at times it will make you feel as though you're watching someones home movies. However once you move beyond all the usual Hollywood expectations of what a good film should be you'll find yourself deeply involved in this simple and sensitive story and personal invested in the charming relationship evolving between Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova.
Follow along as their chance meeting on the streets of Dublin turns into an opportunity for the two to explore their past failures and heartbreaks through the medium of musical composition. As their portfolio of songs grow the beginning sparks hinting at the possibility of something more between the two come into play. Will the musical muse give way to its kindred spirit Cupid, or is the music all they really share?
Terrific film from beginning to end with an excellent soundtrack comprised of the songs created by the two main characters in the storyline. This is what independent filmmaking is all about!
Movie Review: Magical, but not for everyone.
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of the most beautiful movies to come out in years. Some people will find this movie boring, simply because it doesn't show anything particularly out of the ordinary, but that is precisely what makes it so beautiful.
This movie is not, nor does it try to be, anything more than a slice of life set to music. The real magic of the movie comes from its simple, honest treatment of the everyday life of two musicians in Dublin and their meeting. Their relationship is both realistic and playful, and the fact that it never stoops to the cheesy or melodramatic keeps the movie down to earth where it belongs. We don't even ever learn the characters' names.
Those who do not like the music of this movie (mainly indie acoustic singer-songwriter-style) will not like this movie either. However, anyone who can appreciate beautiful and symbolic music should watch it just for the tunes. Both the lyrics and melody are simple and haunting, just like everything else in this movie.
I cannot recommend this movie enough.
Movie Review: Really just a classic film
Summary: 5 Stars
I see a lot of 1-star reviews out there that clearly missed the point of this entire film and it makes me laugh in their faces. Watch the extras after the you watch the movie if you are curious about how the film was shot and put together and how the actors were hired.
For those that say, Glen Hansard can't sing ... we'll he a professional musician and has a band - the director was actually band mates with him at one point.
The movie is not a love story in the sense that the two main characters will fall in love. The movie is more about a man who had his heart crushed and is trying to get back on his feet and find the motivation to get his musical career going and Marketa Irglova's character provides that motivation.
I loved the guerilla shooting of the film and that the actors had no previous acting experience, but were friends in real life at one point. Just a great film and worth seeing and buying ... unless you are a total moron - then you should probably stick to, "Shoot em up"
Movie Review: The "Something More" You've Been Looking For
Summary: 5 Stars
If you are someone who regularly seeks out subtle, sophisticated, truthful films that avoid cliches, then you probably already know about "Once." If you don't, then you can't see it soon enough.
But if you have been walking out of the big-budget, mainstream movie offerings at the local 36 screen Mondoplex feeling vaguely dissatisfied, thinking to yourself, "there must be something more," then "Once" is a great place to start finding that something more.
Pablo Picasso said, "Art is the lie that makes us understand the truth." Believe it or not, there is a whole universe of artistic truth that is outside the walls of the shallow, predictable realm created by market studies and focus groups. If you are ready to put your foot into deeper waters, you can't go wrong with "Once."
I'll let other people summarize the plot. Let's just say that if you stick with it until they sit down at the piano together in the music store, you'll be with it until the end.
Movie Review: Guy Gets Girl, Sort of
Summary: 5 Stars
The only thing that didn't convince me about Once was the music, which I found more serviceable than great. Otherwise, Once is one of the best movies of 2007. Its entire too-short length is a romance, but not in the end the romance expected at the beginning. Even more than the romance, it is about Dublin, about carrying on in fragile circumstances, and about giving oneself and others a second chance. Those are, of course, themes more universal than individual, so it's entirely appropriate that the two protagonists are never named beyond Guy and Girl. Even in that anonymity, however, they are finely drawn and portrayed individuals. Once is a movie to see more often than its title. And each viewing will yield scenes that become stuck in memory -- the father's faith in his son, the brightly colored vacuum cleaner being pulled through gray Dublin streets, and Girl's lunkish adolescent neighbors who pile on to her sofa to watch TV soaps to improve their English.