I just saw the movie ONCE - A film by John Carney for the second time tonight.
I loved it the first time so much that when I got home from seeing it I bought the soundtrack on iTunes... seeing it again knowing the music and lyrics was a real treat. The music is great!
I found it such a unique movie... or modern quirky musical! I give it 5 stars.
What I loved...
- was the raw and mysterious characters - you don't really know their names which I guess is played out in the lyrics to one of the songs Falling Slowly - "'I don't know you, but I want to, all the more for that".
- was the hoover scene, with Marketa dragging her vacuum cleaner around like a dog!
- was that marriage was upheld as something to work hard at and that there was great delight in doing so... rarely find that in movies these days! (despite this I found in me a desire to see the main characters fondness for each other blossom even though it would have been wrong)
- Marketa's accent... Czech accents are cool!
- the music.... it really makes you want to be able to break out into song in your own life to help communicate the highs and lows... music, as Ravi Z says, is the language of the heart - I so agree with him!
