Saturday, March 1, 2008

Notes on "Once"


Once is an Irish film in which a street singer and a struggling immigrant woman from the Czech Republic meet and rescue one another through music. The film is mostly told through the music, although it is not a musical in the normal sense. The immigrant woman is strong in a way that immigrants are often forced to be, and this one fact causes the film to have a rhythm and trajectory that is counter to that of most films.

- J

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