for music lovers

Rating: 8/10 (16 November 2015)

Begin Again is a film by John Carney, the creator of the phenomenal Once (2006), which has again set foot on its familiar ground music. While Once is set in the green of Ireland, the plot of this film is moved across the Atlantic to New York. Here we have a once successful, now divorced, alcohol intoxicated music producer Dan and Greta, young singer-songwriter who came from England to give her support to her boyfriend Dave, whose sudden success pulls radical decisions, and one of these is to move to America. As it happens, at the moment of total emotional distress Dan accidentally hear Greta sing and feels the energy. The main difference between Once and Begin Again the use of flashbacks, the most famous are certainly the two from the first third of the film that seeks to explain how this is to their "fatal" encounter occurred. Musical numbers are creatively designed to the streets and more remote areas of New York overlooking the example. I have to agree with many criticisms regarding the end of the film, which seems to be directed by someone else, though, I do agree that does not spoil the overall impression.