Now this is a love story (of sorts) I can get behind, unlike the recent Dork Report screen­ings of Eagle vs. Shark or Year of the Dog. The unnamed “Guy” (Glen Hansard, already a rock star in The Frames and a movie star from The Com­mit­ments) is a street busker, play­ing pop­u­lar songs for pen­nies dur­ing the day, and sav­ing his own pas­sion­ate com­po­si­tions for the empty streets at night. “Girl” (Markéta Irglová) is an immi­grant from the Czech Repub­lic, look­ing at an unhappy future as a sin­gle mother, in servile jobs, with no out­let for her own musi­cal tal­ent. Each has become stuck, but their meet­ing jos­tles each other into motion.

What a fuck­ing great movie. That’s it; that’s my entire “review.” See it, and get the soundtrack.

Hey, it’s that guy from The Commitments!

Offi­cial movie site: www.foxsearchlight.com/once

Buy the sound­track or DVD from Ama­zon and kick back a few pen­nies to me.

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