Satellite Guide Rates at Four Stars . . . WHY?

Rating: 3/10 (21 February 2016)

Two singer-song writers get to know each other in Dublin. Once you get used to their accents, there is absolutely nothing interesting about either one of them. They seem to write the same song over and over again with the same four-note motif played and sung over and over again. All the fuss and all the awards given this film are prime examples of people bending over backwards to valorize all foreign, indie films over "slick Hollywood" movies. This is my considered opinion as I've watched the film twice now . . . actually one and a half times as I got so bored with the low-key acting and the gratingly repetitious sound track the first time that I only made it about half- way through before giving up. Their tedious songs are touted as brilliant within the film, but I just can't buy into it; the songs are meh and then meh and then more meh. Garsh! They don't even end up together so there isn't even the pallid solace of a true romance.