Once is a breathtaking film of simple beauty that threatens to revolutionize an entire genre. The musical has long been the muse of those aspiring to spectacle productions and glamorous song and dance routines. Once is just the opposite. It’s a lovely little gem of almost no budget that features fairly ordinary musicians singing sparse songs in drab, authentic locales in and around the streets of Dublin. Marketa Irglova and Glen Hansard of The Frames star as two street musicians who meet one another by chance and have a passionate musical fling in which they express increasingly more personal feelings to one another over several days of musical collaboration. It’s the movie musical reinvented for the modern culture of indie rock, iPods, and DIY filmmaking.
Monday, December 17, 2007
DVD of the Week: Once
Once is a breathtaking film of simple beauty that threatens to revolutionize an entire genre. The musical has long been the muse of those aspiring to spectacle productions and glamorous song and dance routines. Once is just the opposite. It’s a lovely little gem of almost no budget that features fairly ordinary musicians singing sparse songs in drab, authentic locales in and around the streets of Dublin. Marketa Irglova and Glen Hansard of The Frames star as two street musicians who meet one another by chance and have a passionate musical fling in which they express increasingly more personal feelings to one another over several days of musical collaboration. It’s the movie musical reinvented for the modern culture of indie rock, iPods, and DIY filmmaking.
