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Once (2007)
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RIP Glen Hansard

Once (2007)

Tickets do 3 dec
do 3 dec
19:30
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On 29 July the wonderful singer/songwriter Glen Hansard died in a motorcycle crash in Dublin, aged 56. In December we’re screening the film thad made him famous, and in which he mostly played himself: a street musician spending a week writing songs with Czech pianist Markéta Irglová. It was John Carney’s claim-to-fame too. And then to think, he shot for only seventeen days on wobbly DV and available light. He wasn’t making a film so much as a demo, but the demo turned out to be the master. Once is simply magical. Trust us, or trust Roger Ebert (who fell competely in love). Song ‘Falling Slowly’ won an Oscar and Sundance gave Once its Audience Award. Come sing along softly.

Credits

Regie
John Carney
Cast
Glen Hansard, Markéta Irglová, Hugh Walsh, Gerard Hendrick, Alaistair Foley, Bill Hodnet
Genre
Romance, drama, music
Speelduur
86
Land
Ireland
Taal
English (plus some Czech)
Ondertiteling
English on the Czech parts

Storyline

A Dublin street musician plays for coins by day and repairs vacuum cleaners in his father’s shop, still writing songs about the girlfriend who left him. One evening a young Czech immigrant stops to listen, asks too many questions and turns out to be a pianist herself. Over the course of a week they write, rehearse and record together, and something grows between them that neither quite puts into words. A small, handmade musical love story built around the Oscar winning song “Falling Slowly”. Shown in English, with English subtiles for the occasionally Czech-spoken parts.