just saw it
wow wow wow
fantastic, transcendent, miraculous.
what a grlllate fookin' movie. (in Dublinese)
Best movie I've seen this year, hands down. Glen Hansard is fantastic and so is Marketa Irglova. A simple and perfect love story. I don't know why or how this movie soars like it does, but I guess that's the miracle isn't it? Writer/director John Carney shows a confidence in his storyelling that's just brilliant.
Hansard is now my favorite singer/songwriter and I'm going to buy everything he's ever done. Apparently he and Irglova recorded an album last year, as well. Gotta find that. And Irglova is simply luminous in a girl-next-door, Eastern-European, big schnozz kinda way. You can have your Playboy models, I'll take Marketa, thank you very much.
The songs! I can't explain it, but I nearly burst into tears in the middle of the song they first play at the music store together. It moved me that much. And then to hear it with full orchestration at the end - incredible. Great, great songs all around.
Go search it out, it's worth the trouble.
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