Once is an Academy Award winning 2007 Irish musical film written and directed by John Carney. Set in Dublin, this naturalistic drama stars musicians Glen Hansard (of popular Irish rock band The Frames) and Markéta Irglová as struggling musicians. Collaborators prior to making the film, Hansard and/or Irglová composed and performed all but one of the original songs in the movie. blank">AllMusicGuide.com
Shot for only €130,000 ($160,000), Weisman, Jon. "Once Upon a Time", Variety, July 18, 2007. Accessed 11 August 2007. the film was very successful, IMDb box office information earning substantial per-screen box office averages in the United States. Entertainment Weekly: "'Once' a Hero" from Jun 14, 2007 It received extremely enthusiastic reviews Once at Rotten Tomatoes Metacritic entry for Once and awards such as the 2008 Independent Spirit Award for best foreign film. Hansard and Irglová's song "Falling Slowly" received a 2008 _Academy Award and a 2008 Grammy nomination, and the soundtrack as a whole also received a Grammy nomination.
'Life can be perfect if you want it to be. There need not be cancellations in the scheduled programming.' A generation marked by television. An inability to distinguish reality from the tube. A boy. A girl. An imaginary television show. Things are bound to get messy. Written by Matthew Clayfield
An (unnamed) Guy is a Dublin guitarist/singer-songwriter who makes a living by fixing vacuum cleaners in his Dad's Hoover repair shop by day, and singing and playing for money on the Dublin streets by night. An (unnamed) Girl is a Czech who plays piano when she gets a chance, and does odd jobs by day and takes care of her mom and her daughter by night. Guy meets Girl, and they get to know each other as the Girl helps the Guy to put together a demo disc that he can take to London in hope of landing a music contract. During the same several day period, the Guy and the Girl work through their past loves, and reveal their budding love for one another, through their songs. Written by Charles Delacroix
