Awful, awful, awful!

Rating: 1/10 (16 June 2007)

A "1" is too high for this amateurish home movie.
First, the music, if a wailing busker with neither a singing voice nor talent howling out some incomprehensible dreary melody that wouldn't even qualify as bad folk songs can be considered music.
The director seems to think so, for we are forced to endure each "song" from beginning to end (mostly you will wonder if it will ever end each time) with a meaningless story subservient to the singing and kept in the background. In every movie with even a great soundtrack of music, the music is always secondary to the plot and story - not so here, as we must listen to music that strives to be mediocre at best (or worst).
As if the music isn't unendurable enough, the story is incomprehensible. I would have appreciated sub-titles, this movie needed it - unless you've grown up in the back streets of Dublin - the Irish brogue might as well have been spoken in ancient Sanskrit and no one would have known the difference.
Bad enough so far, and we have no idea why each of their two (former) partners are no longer with them (well, I wouldn't want them either, frankly) and for what reason they will be together again - and, of course, who cares anyway?
Add to this the cinematography was no better than an old 8mm home movie - generally either too soft a focus, or sometimes out of focus, camera shaking, poor lighting - I am aware of what a competent cinematographer can accomplish with a needed mood scene, but this movie probably didn't even have competence on the technical level.
If you enjoy talentless losers busking their way thru life, by all means enjoy it.
Not my cup of tea.
Our local newspaper gave this 4 stars, their top rating. Even such gems as Babel and After The Wedding didn't get that. Must be something wrong with me.