Once (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Once |
| Original title | Once |
| Country of production | Ireland |
| original language |
English Czech |
| Publishing year | 2006 |
| length | 86 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 0 JMK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | John Carney |
| script | John Carney |
| production | Martina Niland |
| music |
Glen Hansard Markéta Irglová |
| camera | Tim Fleming |
| cut | Paul Mullen |
| occupation | |
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Once is a 2006 Irish independent film directed by John Carney .
The film won an Oscar for Best Song in 2008 .
action
The protagonist lives again with his widowed father in Dublin and repairs vacuum cleaners in his electrical appliance store. In addition, he works as a street musician with his scruffy guitar and dreams of a career as a professional musician. A young Czech immigrant who works as a street flower seller in Dublin and who is later hired as a cleaning lady by a wealthy family becomes friends with him and soon encourages him to turn his dreams into reality.
After the trained pianist had fascinated him with her playing during a lunch break, the two discovered, beyond their shared enthusiasm for music, more and more their sympathy for one another, but they were unable to erase the traces of their respective pasts. While he deals with a painful separation in his songs, she has an almost two-year-old daughter with her husband, who has stayed behind in the Czech Republic. During the day, her mother, who has moved to Ireland with her, looks after the child of the separated couple.
They are recording a demo CD in a studio in Dublin with a diverse street band . But then they both go their separate ways again: He decides to try it as an artist in London and there to fight for his old love, which he encourages over the phone. She tries to start over with her husband, who is moving to Dublin from the Czech Republic. As a parting present, the street musician has a piano delivered to her, paid for with the money his father gave him to start over in London.
Film music
The film music was recorded and sung by the two main actors Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová. Most of the film music was composed by Hansard, and Irglová also contributed two songs. They wrote two more songs together. Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová were awarded an Oscar in the category Best Song in 2008 for the song "Falling Slowly" and were nominated for a Grammy in the same year .
Background information
The two main characters have no names. They are only referred to as "The Guy" and "The Girl" in the credits.
The two main actors began a relationship privately after filming was completed. The age difference between the two is 18 years.
Leading actor Glen Hansard is the singer and guitarist of The Frames , with director John Carney playing bass there until 1993. Hansard played the Outspan Foster in the music film The Commitments .
The film was almost in dogma -style in 17 days (up to a crane - Take ) with hand-held camera filmed on location and in the homes of various crew members. The budget was only 130,000 euros (160,000 US dollars ) because of this economical production method . They received financial support of 100,000 euros from the Irish Film Board .
Once premiered on July 15, 2006 at a festival in Ireland. After it had been rejected by all European film festival juries, it surprisingly won the audience award at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival .
The film started in the US with only two copies and was still a financial success there.
The German theatrical release was on January 17, 2008.
A musical based on the film was released on Broadway in 2012 and won 8 Tony Awards out of 12 nominations in the same year.
In 2011, the documentary The Swell Season was released, which deals with the lives of Hansard and Irglová after the success of the film Once (they both had a relationship as a result of the film). The film is often viewed as a sequel to Once and was released in Germany together with Once, among others, in a Collector's Edition on DVD.
Background to the film
Director John Carney had the plan to make a film about a street musician. To this end, he asked his friend Glen Hansard to write some songs that he could use in the film. Hansard and Carney played together in the band "The Frames" a few years earlier. Hansard introduced Carney to Markéta Irglová, who corresponded to the profile characteristic - Eastern European and musician. Carney was soon convinced to give her the role of leading lady. The search for the male lead was shaped by a number of decisions. Carney had the choice of hiring a very good actor who could sing or a very good singer who was average in acting. He chose the latter because the focus of the story was clearly on the music.
When he finally saw how Hansard and Irglová interacted, it was clear to him that he would get Hansard in the lead role.
Awards
- In the Best Song category with “Falling Slowly” for Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová.
- As the best foreign film .
Chlotrudis Award 2008
- As the best film .
Reviews
"This little film gave me enough inspiration to get through the whole year."
“Finally, no smooth, no embellished, no constructed nonsense about relationship and music, but a really native, completely unexcited, pleasantly laconic fresh-happy-pious-rustic-just-so-encounter-song-story of boy and girl. That's it. If you stumble past this film, it's your own fault, but don't say that you didn't know that this film existed: “Once” is pure music, charm and atmosphere, cult. A film for, pardon me, to love, to like. CINEMA HAS NOT BEEN SO WONDERFULLY-NORMAL-BEAUTIFUL! "
"You don't joke with street musicians: The little music film 'Once', a surprise success at the Sundance Festival 2007, presents itself as a reinterpretation of the music film genre - and fails grandly because of its own seriousness."
"A real rarity: music film, life and love story, told in a believable and warm-hearted way."
Margret Köhler from Bayerischer Rundfunk called the film “a complete success”.
Web links
- Once in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Once at rotten tomatoes (English)
- Official Fox Searchlight Pictures film site in English
- Official German film site of Kinowelt / Arthaus including the possibility of free downloading of the Oscar-winning song "Falling Slowly"
- Once in the lexicon of international films
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Once . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2008 (PDF; from November 25, 2008; accessed on January 14, 2015; 70 kB).
- ↑ Age rating for Once . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Jamie Diamond: Life imitating art , The New York Times. February 24, 2008.
- ↑ 'Once' upon a time , article by Jon Weisman in Variety, July 18, 2007, accessed February 7, 2008
- ↑ Bonus material on the DVD, "Making a Day Musical"
- ^ Article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung from January 16, 2008
- ↑ Deutschlandradio: Films of the Week
- ↑ spiegel.de
- ^ BR online film review ( Memento from September 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive )