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Genre: Concerts Operas and Musicals
Subgenre: Musical Drama,Slice of Life
Title: Once
Countries Produced: Ireland
Duration: 86 minutes
Year of Release: 2007
Studio: Import Vendor
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Product Name: Once [Blu-ray] [2007]
UPC: 5051429701240
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
ONCE IS UNIQUE
Once is wonderfully unique and it contains some stunning music, but dramatically the film often feels inert and half formed, a series of vignettes rather than a well constructed story. Carney seems only too aware of these facts, given some of the comments he makes in his commentary and on the featurette included on this Blu-ray disc as a supplement. But there's a certain ineluctable charm to Once that helps it to overcome some of its flaws, and the music in the film acts as a soothing balm that washes over some of the rough corners on display in other parts of this outing. High definition can only do so much with limited source material, and that's the case with both the video and audio presentations here. With all these caveats in mind, Once still comes Recommended.
This is the director's 1st movie that I know of. The music is great!!! It is what's keeps the movie going esp. in the beginning where it is somewhat slow and a little undeveloped HOWEVER it gets very good once they go into a recording studio. I found the music much better than "Inside Llewyn Davis" (their song won the Academy Award) and it was more upbeat as well as the lead character much more likable! The music alone is worth the whole movie. I will look forward to more movies from this director as well as more music from the 2 lead characters!
Heard about the movie after a friend saw the Broadway Show and raved about the music. I liked the story and their dialogue for the most part. Some of it was hard to understand due to the strong accent. The insight into the music recording process was fun to see.
