Once (2007)
Average Rating: 8.3/10
Reviews Counted: 154
Fresh: 149 | Rotten: 5
A charming, captivating tale of love and music, Once sets the standard for the modern musical. And with Dublin as its backdrop, Once is fun and fresh.
Average Rating: 8.4/10
Critic Reviews: 43
Fresh: 43 | Rotten: 0
A charming, captivating tale of love and music, Once sets the standard for the modern musical. And with Dublin as its backdrop, Once is fun and fresh.
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A Dublin-based busker and vacuum-cleaner repairman enters into a fruitful relationship with a piano playing florist in a toe-tapping "video album" directed by John Carney and featuring a cast comprised entirely of professional musicians. He (Glen Hansard of the Frames) was a six-stringed street musician. She (Markéta Irglová) was a flower woman who couldn't afford to purchase a piano of her own. One day, after admiring the musician's songs and asking if he would take a look at her broken vacuum,
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Cast
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Glen Hansard
The Busker -
Markéta Irglová
The Girl -
Hugh Walsh
Timmy Drummer -
Gerard Hendrick
Lead Guitarist -
Alastair Foley
Bassist -
Geoff Minogue
Eamon -
Bill Hodnett
Guy's Dad -
Danuse Ktrestova
Girl's Mother -
Darren Healy
Heroin Addict -
Mal Whyte
Bill -
Marcella Plunkett
Ex-Girlfriend -
Niall Cleary
Bob -
Witold Owski
Man Watching TV -
Krzysztos Tlotka
Man Watching TV -
Tomek Glowacki
Man Watching TV -
Attila Kouvacs
Man Watching TV -
Sean Millar
Bank Manger -
Pat McGrath
Drunk -
Praghosa
Hari Krishna -
Kate Haugh
Baby -
Senan Haugh
Husband -
Catherine Hansard
Singer at Party -
Pete Short
Singer at Party -
Fergus OFarrell
Singer at Party -
Bob Hoban
Shop Assistant Bogarts -
Martina Akindojctimi
Person On Stoop -
Ruslan Mannanu
Person On Stoop -
Francis Usanga
Person On Stoop -
Price Tylot Khumaho
Person On Stoop -
Joe Adebe
Person On Stoop -
Bernard Gibsenen
Shop Assistant -
Paul Clarke
Shop Assistant -
Maire Walsh
Lady on Bus -
Dave Cleary
Host at Party -
Keith Byrne
Guy in Piano Shop -
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All Critics (155) | Top Critics (43) | Fresh (156) | Rotten (5) | DVD (15)
So this is how you make a low-budget musical these days!
Top CriticIn an era when Hollywood has largely lost the ability to distinguish between romance and sex, Once is the rare film that recognizes that love is no less love for being held in check, it is merely a different kind of love.
Once doesn't plop its emotions on its characters' sleeves, and it trusts us enough to leave some of the best stuff unstated. In other words, it trusts us to know that half the music lies between the notes.
Forget everything you think you know about the movie musical, one of the more predictable genres. With Once, writer-director John Carney deconstructs it and reinvents it as something wholly new, inspired and alive.
This lovely tale of a love affair between a Dublin street musician and a flower girl will leave you wistful for more. It's a movie to fall in love with and a movie to fall in love during. It is the most naturalistic musical ever.
Don't miss Once. It has to be seen and heard to be believed and enjoyed.
At once delicate and gritty, wistful and deeply satisfying.
There is much to admire about Once, in a little-movie-that-could kind of way, but it can't help but get in its own way just when it begins to gain some momentum
my biggest road block was the fact that I didn't like the music
It has its own peculiar naturalism, a kind of lo-fi, lovelorn charm.
Um filme mágico que, através de sua narrativa enganosamente simples, alcança uma vitória que escapa à maioria das obras do gênero, retratando com sentimento o instante preciso no qual dois seres humanos se descobrem apaixonados um pelo outro.
Once is the anti-blockbuster that couldn't have come at a better time.
a tender little ultralow budget movie about the intimate connection of making music...the warm folkiness of the songs and their generally non-narrative-pushing content make it feel more like a long, lovely home movie of a short portion of two people's liv
Un effort battant la mesure d'une manière somme toute imparfaite, mais néanmoins prenante, qu'un genre aussi excessif que le film musical a besoin de temps à autre...
A moving story about two people who share a common love of music.
mia idiaiteri kinimatografiki empeiria, esto kai san kolaz, apo mia seira binteoklip me toys idioys, agapimenoys soy protagonistes
With delicate care and a modest street musician attitude, Carney has reinvented what a movie musical can be.
Once feels like one of life's captured moments--a slice of kismet where you just happen to be in the right place at the right time to witness a marvel of nature, an act of tenderness . . . .
...an epic told in incomplete lyric lines, a classic fable forged out of slowly strummed guitar, lilting piano, and strained, struggling voices.
Audience Reviews for Once
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- The Busker: Broken hearted Hoover fixer sucker guy.
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- Eamon: Guys, why do you think there are no blonde priests?
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- The Girl: Do you like this shop? I buy all my clothes here. Good for me, you know. Cheap. Nice fashion.
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- The Girl: Fuck you, batteries!
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