Los Angeles, CA : Fox Searchlight Pictures : Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc., 2007.
Publication Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sd., color ;
LCCN
2011602416
Dimensions
4 3/4 in.
Awards Note
Winner of the Audience Award, World Cinema, Dramatic-John Carney Sundance Film Festival, 2007; Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song-Glen Hansard and MarkÃta IrglovÃ, Academy Awards 2008.
A nameless busker, singing his heart out on the streets of Dublin meets a nameless young woman who speaks English with an accent, a street vendor. His girlfriend has left him, so he works in his father's vacuum repair shop and writes songs for her. She cleans houses, and plays the demo piano in a shop at lunchtime. The singer comes to hear her, and is so impressed that he immediately asks if she wants to collaborate -- right then -- on one of his tunes. They slowly piece the song together, and magic begins. This is a love story about a creative partnership, and the deeper longing for communication that underlies any worthwhile artistic effort.
General Note
Originally produced as an Irish motion picture in 2006.
Special features: Commentary with writer/director John Carney and actors/musicians Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova; Musical commentary with writer/director John Carney and actor/musicians Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova; Making a modern day musical [featurette] (13 min.); More guy, more girl [featurette] (10 min.); webisode "Broken hearted Hoover fixer sucker guy" [animated featurette] (1 min.); free music download "Falling slowly" from the motion picture [requires a DVD-ROM drive and Window 98 or higher]; Trailers (6 min.).
Content Note
Robbed -- 'Say It to Me Now'/Main titles -- 'All the Way Down' -- Hoover -- 'Falling Slowly' -- 'Broken-hearted' -- What? -- My home -- Romantic streak -- 'If You Want Me' -- 'Lies' -- Hard bargain -- 'Gold' -- Uncertain future -- 'Trying to Pull Myself Away' -- 'When Your Mind's Made Up' -- 'Fallen From the Sky' -- 'Hill' -- Car test -- Proposition -- "Brilliant!" -- Part of me -- Eyes that know me -- 'Once'/End titles.