The utterly-charming Once is a strange bird indeed. The story is simple, but truthful, about a down-on-his-luck busker who, on the streets of Dublin, meets an equally struggling Czech pianist. They make beautiful music together, but will that translate into a romance given their circumstances? With the preponderance of songs, it plays like a musical, but they're all motivated by reality. It's about song writers, so they sing. The feeling and lyrics of each song isn't too on the nose, but does describe the action and emotion of the moment, just like in a proper musical. With the usual heightened reality removed, the film is able to sell this idea with a minimal budget, and to my surprise, achieves a raw, gritty, pseudo-documentary style you never see in the genre. And yes, the songs are quite good!
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Eva1986
So sweet and loved the music. Glen Hansard has one f*cking amazing voice... lots of power and emotion to it.d3nn1sthemenace
Great movie with great music in it, nice story also and good and funny acting!Love it!!!
wolski888
AWESOME!!!!!Oriana
the songs were really nice.SaimonlesS
love it!vishnu
a gem!rramires
Great voice of both...nice songs.harunsen
I loved this movies, very good!Siskoid
The utterly-charming Once is a strange bird indeed. The story is simple, but truthful, about a down-on-his-luck busker who, on the streets of Dublin, meets an equally struggling Czech pianist. They make beautiful music together, but will that translate into a romance given their circumstances? With the preponderance of songs, it plays like a musical, but they're all motivated by reality. It's about song writers, so they sing. The feeling and lyrics of each song isn't too on the nose, but does describe the action and emotion of the moment, just like in a proper musical. With the usual heightened reality removed, the film is able to sell this idea with a minimal budget, and to my surprise, achieves a raw, gritty, pseudo-documentary style you never see in the genre. And yes, the songs are quite good!-1flb2-
G R E A T movie. The music was entertaining and the movie was fun. I wish they made more movies like this!tredfgbvc
So this is a musical. If you don't like the music, you probably won't like the movie.Nine99
Didn't like the music that much.The_Comatorium
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