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Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Audience Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5051429101279
Format: PAL
Label: Icon Home Entertainment
Languages:English Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired Dolby Digital 2.0 English Original Language Dolby Digital 2.0
Manufacturer: Icon Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Icon Home Entertainment
Region Code: 2
Release Date: February 25, 2008
Running Time: 84 minutes
Studio: Icon Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Accessories: Related Items:
Editorial Review:
Amazon.co.uk Review:
Winner of the World Audience Award at Sundance, Once starts out as a small-scale romance, like Before Sunrise, before arriving somewhere unexpected. An Irish busker (Glen Hansard, the Frames and The Commitments) meets a Czech flower seller (Markéta Irglová) while singing on the streets of Dublin. (In the credits, they're listed as Guy and Girl.) She likes what she hears and lets him know. Turns out she's a musician, too. They work on a few songs together and a friendship is forged. She lives with her widowed mother, who doesn't speak English. He lives with his widowed father, who owns a repair shop. Since he broke up with his girlfriend, the guy has been drifting, unable and unwilling to get his life in order. The girl encourages him to pursue a record deal, and the guy emerges from his funk. Then he makes a move on the girl, who rejects his advances. He's confused, but as he comes to find, there's a reason she's keeping her distance. Though Once is filled with appealing folk-pop by Hansard and Irglová (released on CD as The Swell Season), the movie isn't a traditional musical, but rather a more optimistic Brief Encounter. Filmmaker John Carney, Hansard's former bandmate, captures the real city--in all its affluence and poverty--rather than the picture postcard version. His beautifully shot film serves as a heartfelt ballad about all the underclass Guys and Girls swept aside amidst Ireland's economic miracle. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
Rating:
- don't expect car chases
A gentle, unassuming, moving and simple story well told. Low key production suits the intimacy of the tale and it was only afterwards that I realised how much had been moved along by the songs rather than them being used as interludes. And it's now become my partner's favourite film
Rating:
- I have fast forward finger
This film was really the most unbearable nonsense, the Irish busker/hoover repair man was perhaps the most annoying person ever. The music was awful, he must have been listening to an awful lot of Damien Rice.
Rating: - Don't believe the hype
My girlfriend and I were really looking forward to watching this but were both shocked at just how disappointing it really is.
First off I liked the music, it's good singer songwriter fair but forgettable. If you like Irish singers there are plenty other better ones out there.
It's terribly shot, as a film maker myself it is just unforgivable to make a film this poorly, shooting on the worst camera badly. For me though this comes second to the total lack of narrative, ... Read More
Rating:
- FANTASTIC PLEASE WATCH AND GET CD!
THIS IS A FANTASTIC FILM WHICH IS REALLY UNIQUE AND CAPTIVATING! I LOVE IT AND THE CD IS AMAZING YOU REALLY NEED TO GET THIS!
Rating: - Loved it. And believe me, I hate musicals..!
...but I do love well-crafted films with a soul. I bought this on a bit of a whim, having heard great things about it on my indie-flick radar ( kinda like Spidey-sense ), and after a worried start, I totally fell for this movie.
I say worried, because films about shouty Irish buskers would possibly make even me think twice, but you stick with it, and ten minutes in, you realise you are in that rare character-piece territory previously inhabited by Richard Linklater and his beautiful Before ... Read More
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Once [2007]
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Audience Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5051429101279
Format: PAL
Label: Icon Home Entertainment
Languages:
Manufacturer: Icon Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Icon Home Entertainment
Region Code: 2
Release Date: February 25, 2008
Running Time: 84 minutes
Studio: Icon Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Accessories: Related Items:
- Once: Music From The Motion Picture
- Into the Wild [2007]
- Michael Clayton [2007]
- The Kite Runner [2007]
- La Vie En Rose [2007]
- see more
Editorial Review:
Amazon.co.uk Review:
Winner of the World Audience Award at Sundance, Once starts out as a small-scale romance, like Before Sunrise, before arriving somewhere unexpected. An Irish busker (Glen Hansard, the Frames and The Commitments) meets a Czech flower seller (Markéta Irglová) while singing on the streets of Dublin. (In the credits, they're listed as Guy and Girl.) She likes what she hears and lets him know. Turns out she's a musician, too. They work on a few songs together and a friendship is forged. She lives with her widowed mother, who doesn't speak English. He lives with his widowed father, who owns a repair shop. Since he broke up with his girlfriend, the guy has been drifting, unable and unwilling to get his life in order. The girl encourages him to pursue a record deal, and the guy emerges from his funk. Then he makes a move on the girl, who rejects his advances. He's confused, but as he comes to find, there's a reason she's keeping her distance. Though Once is filled with appealing folk-pop by Hansard and Irglová (released on CD as The Swell Season), the movie isn't a traditional musical, but rather a more optimistic Brief Encounter. Filmmaker John Carney, Hansard's former bandmate, captures the real city--in all its affluence and poverty--rather than the picture postcard version. His beautifully shot film serves as a heartfelt ballad about all the underclass Guys and Girls swept aside amidst Ireland's economic miracle. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
Average Rating:
Rating:
- don't expect car chasesA gentle, unassuming, moving and simple story well told. Low key production suits the intimacy of the tale and it was only afterwards that I realised how much had been moved along by the songs rather than them being used as interludes. And it's now become my partner's favourite film
Rating:
- I have fast forward fingerThis film was really the most unbearable nonsense, the Irish busker/hoover repair man was perhaps the most annoying person ever. The music was awful, he must have been listening to an awful lot of Damien Rice.
Rating:
- Don't believe the hypeMy girlfriend and I were really looking forward to watching this but were both shocked at just how disappointing it really is.
First off I liked the music, it's good singer songwriter fair but forgettable. If you like Irish singers there are plenty other better ones out there.
It's terribly shot, as a film maker myself it is just unforgivable to make a film this poorly, shooting on the worst camera badly. For me though this comes second to the total lack of narrative, ... Read More
Rating:
- FANTASTIC PLEASE WATCH AND GET CD!THIS IS A FANTASTIC FILM WHICH IS REALLY UNIQUE AND CAPTIVATING! I LOVE IT AND THE CD IS AMAZING YOU REALLY NEED TO GET THIS!
Rating:
- Loved it. And believe me, I hate musicals..!...but I do love well-crafted films with a soul. I bought this on a bit of a whim, having heard great things about it on my indie-flick radar ( kinda like Spidey-sense ), and after a worried start, I totally fell for this movie.
I say worried, because films about shouty Irish buskers would possibly make even me think twice, but you stick with it, and ten minutes in, you realise you are in that rare character-piece territory previously inhabited by Richard Linklater and his beautiful Before ... Read More
Action & Adventure • Adult • Anime • Children's • Classics • Comedy • Crime, Thrillers & Mystery • Documentary • Drama • Fitness • Gay & Lesbian • Horror • Interactive • Music • Musicals & Classical • Science Fiction & Fantasy • Sports • Television •
