"Once"
I want to describe this film to you. Have you understand what it is I saw, what I heard.
I can't. We stood outside the theater for half an hour talking about what we'd just seen.
All I hear in my head right now is "Falling Slowly"...
As I started listening to "Falling Slowly" this morning, I was moved to tears all over again...
EDIT - Here, the director said it best:
My intention was to make an original film, almost like a visual album, but with a realistic, modern love-story at its heart. We’re in a world where a three-minute song is worth ten pages of dialogue; where the characters communicate more through the art of song than by talking or getting involved in traditional plot-points and dramatic situations. Of course, this is not to say that there isn’t a three-act structure in the story; it’s just a little more oblique than in your average film - and the songs themselves are the key to uncovering it.
I can't. We stood outside the theater for half an hour talking about what we'd just seen.
All I hear in my head right now is "Falling Slowly"...
As I started listening to "Falling Slowly" this morning, I was moved to tears all over again...
EDIT - Here, the director said it best:
My intention was to make an original film, almost like a visual album, but with a realistic, modern love-story at its heart. We’re in a world where a three-minute song is worth ten pages of dialogue; where the characters communicate more through the art of song than by talking or getting involved in traditional plot-points and dramatic situations. Of course, this is not to say that there isn’t a three-act structure in the story; it’s just a little more oblique than in your average film - and the songs themselves are the key to uncovering it.