Once

So the ChCh Film Festival is going on. Last night Liz and I went to see "Once" an Irish Film. I had seen the previews for it on imbd months ago and really wanted to see it. It was brilliant. It's being described as a modern day musical, Romeo & Julietish love story. Wow. I haven't been so moved by a movie in ages. The music is beautiful (all original by the two leads who are musicians, not actors). It doesn't even feel like you are watching a movie, but just a fluid look at these peoples' lives without it feeling at all like a doco. I personally love the music and it reminded me heaps of Nathaniel and Felicity ( my wickedly talented musical friends). It was about good decent people who made some damn good music together. I could have watched it again right after it was finished and the music has been going through my head all day. Go see it. I give it

CCCCC (5 out of 5 C's)

few interesting notes about the movie:
- Made for $160,000 dollars
-receiving the World Cinema Audience Award for a dramatic film at Sundance this year
- Glen Hansard (lead Guy) is part of a popular group called The Frames and was in The Commitments.
- Hansard and Markéta Irglová (lead girl) do infact play together and have an album called The Swell Season.
- As of July 02, 2007, Once had high ratings from two popular film review aggregation sites: it was deemed 97% "fresh" at Rotten Tomatoes^[3] and scored a grade of 88 ("universal acclaim") according to Metacritic.^[4]