how can you say no to this?

Rating: 10/10 (15 October 2007)

OK...i'll join the chorus - gladly.
It's like this - this has happened over and over... i'm talking with a friend i haven't seen in a while and then we get to the part of the conversation - and we haven't even been talking about movies - where they ask me "Have you seen 'Once'?" And we both happily enter into that shared experience of talking about how 'great' it was. As if all anyone ever wants to do anymore is to agree for once that something in this world is 'great', which in the case of this movie i'm really thinking means 'pure', not infected by the cheapness or cynicism of so much out there.
To accept this very sentimental movie requires a great suspension of cynicism. The only people I know who haven't liked this were unable to make this leap. But I always have the feeling they very badly wanted to.
And the music is great. And the music scenes - the rehearsals, the recording session - are among the few i've seen that come close to the capturing those experiences in any true way.
When the hell is this coming out on DVD? My friend Monica has gone nuts - crazy over a heartbreak and the only helpful thought I can come up with is I want her to see this movie and get out of herself for 85 minutes.