sing a long with the Frames

Rating: 6/10 (22 February 2008)

The first few minutes of the film Once tell the whole story and have humour and music and the possibility of love between Glen Hansard (Frames singer) playing the busker and the also unnamed Czech girl played by Marketa Irglov. Their possible relationship is cleverly uncertain. The relationship between Hansard and his Hoover Repairman Father is also charmingly balanced.
But for me the music grates after a while. The story and the relationships are secondary to the music; if you like the singer you'll like the film; if earnest ardour is not your cuppa then the film will begin to taste like tepid tea.