Just SPOT. ON. In every way possible

Rating: 9/10 (19 October 2014)

Let's just get this straight: there are those of us who've are or have been extreme fans of live music, me myself since my early teens. And once you get back to your house, to your apartment, to your relationships and to your life as you know it, after being on the road in one way or the other... if you could wish for one thing to be intertwined to your everyday emotions, it would be the way you feel when you experience someone pouring his or her heart out in the form of music.
There's no accurate way to fully explain the sensation of experiencing live music, as an expression of your emotions in any specific moment when it makes it all just seem real. When a building filled with unique characters find themselves connected to one another in a, by looking at it from a distance, rather cheesy and yet f*cking wonderful way. You just can't get it down in text, or rather, I can't.
But you know what? This movie actually, and I'm still positively surprised and stunned while I'm writing this since it came rather unexpected, this movie has actually got IT! "Begin Again" manages to get the scenes that are about recording, and about sharing and experiencing live music, to feel utterly real in a sense that simply blows you away.
Sure, there's a fair bit of cliché hiding out not far from the surface of this movie. And sure, I must admit, the scenes where you find the characters sitting by themselves could have been better. As a matter of fact, the lack of situations where the actors actually scrutinize themselves could be a little bit excruciating from time to time.
But even so, I feel obliged to state this: "Begin Again" manages, even through some of it's shortcomings, to capture so much of the life that IS live music that it even works fairly well as a substitute for being out on the road. And that, my dear friends, would be enough for me to recommend this gem to anyone with a soft spot for live music.
I dare you not to check this soundtrack out afterwards. That's how good this movie is. I dare you not to replay the last 20 minutes of this movie. That's how good it is. Hats of, thanks for this experience, yours truly.