Once [videorecording] /Bord Scannan na heireann ; Samson Films ; Summitt Entertainment ; produced by Martina Niland ; written and directed by John Carney.
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Visual materialPublisher: Culver City, CA : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2007Description: 1 videodisc (86 mins.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.Subject(s): Singers -- Ireland -- Dublin -- Drama | Pianists -- Czechoslovakia -- Drama | Man-women relationships -- Ireland -- Dublin -- DramaGenre/Form: Foriegn films. | Feature films. | Musical films.Originally released as a motion picture in 2006.
Special features: Commentary and musical commentary with director John Carney and actors/musicians Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova; "Making of a modern day musical" featurette; "More guy, more girl" featurette; free music download "Falling slowly" from the motion picture;"BRoken harted Hoover fixer sucker guy" animated sequence webisode; forced trailers.
Director of photography, Tim Fleming ; editor, Paul mullen ; production designer, Tamare Conboy.
Glen Hansard, Marketa Irglova.
A guy lives in Dublin. He is a guitarist/singer-songwriter who makes a iving by fixing vacuum cleaners in his Dad's Hoover repair shop by day. By night, he sings and plays for money on the Dublin streets. A girl from Czechoslovakia loves to play the piano when she gets a chance. During the day she does odd jobs. At night she takes care of her mom and her daughter. Guy meets girl, and they get to know each other. Girl helps Guy put together a demo disc so he can take it to London in hope of landing a music contract. At the same time, the Guy and the Girl work through their past loves, and reveal their budding love for one another, through their songs.
MPAA rating: R; for language.
DVD, widescreen.
English or dubbed spanish dialogue, English, French or Spanish subtitles; closed captioned.
Sundance Film Festival, 2007: Audience Award - WOrld CInema - Dramatic (John Carney)
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