Saw a great movie at the SF International Film Festival last night. Once is very un-Hollywood - there's no big explosions, you won't recognize any of the actors. You may even have a little trouble understanding the accents sometimes. Set in Ireland, it tells the story of two people (played by non-actor musicians Glen Hansard and Market Iglova) who find each other.
The music is incredible as Glen, lead singer of the Frames. and classically-trained Czech pianist Market create beautiful, romantic, poignant, and in-the-end extremely catchy songs together.
Sometimes described as a modern musical, don't let that put you off. Rather, the songs really do fit well into the story which shows a relationship developing bit-by-bit. Hopefully, this movie will get some decent distribution, rather than be shown only at film festivals (at which it has picked up awards this year).
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