Country: Japan
Year: 2007
Duration: 88'


Without a real job and having recently broken up with his girlfriend, he dreams of recording his songs and making his first album. She’s a girl from Eastern Europe, working as a cleaning lady, but would like to play the piano, like she did in her country. They meet by chance in the streets of Dublin, where he works as a busker, they are brought together by their common passion for music, they fall in love and decide to start a band to make their dreams come true and change their lives for the better.

“My intention was to make an original film, almost like a visual album, but with a realistic, modern love-story at its heart. We’re in a world where a three-minute song is worth ten pages of dialogue; where the characters communicate more through the art of song than by talking or getting involved in traditional plot-points and dramatic situations. Of course, this is not to say that there isn’t a three-act structure in the story; it’s just a little more oblique than in your average film – and the songs themselves are the key to uncovering it.”

Biography

film director

John Carney

(Dublin, 1972) began his film career writing, producing and directing two award-winning short-lenght films, Shining Star and Hotel, and directing videos for Irish Band The Frames. His first feature film, November Afternoon (1997), a lowbudget production, was voted Best Feature of 1997 by the “Irish Times.” Then he wrote, directed and scored Just in Time, an hour-long TV film. In 2001 he directed On the Edge, starring Cillian Murphy and Stephen Rea, which won the Silver Hitchcock Award at the Dinard Film Festival. Then he turned his hand to TV writing and directing, from 2001 to 2003, three series of “Bachelors Walk,” the most successful independently series in the history of Irish television.

FILMOGRAFIA

filmografia essenziale/
essential filmography

November Afternoon (1996), Just in Time (TV, 1998), Park (1999), On the Edge (2001), Zonad (2003), «Bacherlos Walk» (TV, 2001-03), «Bacherlos Walk Christmas Special» (TV, 2001-03), Once (2006), «Bacherlos Walk Christmas Special» (TV, 2006).

Cast

& Credits

regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay John Carney
fotografia/director of photography Tim Fleming
scenografia/set design Tamara Conboy
costumi/costume design Tiziana Corvisieri
montaggio/film editor Paul Mullen
musica/music Glen Hansard
suono/sound Robert Flanagan
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Glen Hansard (il ragazzo/guy), Marketa Irglova (la ragazza/girl), Hugh Walsh (il batterista/drummer), Gerry Hendrick (il chitarrista/guitarist), Alastair Foley (Eamon), Bill Hodnett (il padre del ragazzo/guy’s father), Danese Ktrestova (la madre della ragazza/girl’s mother), Darren Healy
(il tossicodipendente/heroin addicted), Mal Whyte (Bill), Marcella Plunkett (l’ex fidanzata/ex-girlfriend), Niall Cleary (Bob)
produttore/producer Martina Niland
produzione/production Summit Entertainment, Samson Films
coproduzione/coproduction Bord Scannán Na Héireann, The Irish Film Board, Rté
distribuzione/distribution Eagle Pictures
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