once.

i remember "once" playing at the landmark but i never saw it. i have seen the swell season, at the hollywood bowl, it was a beautiful show. but i thought the band existed first and they happen to be chosen for the movie. but when i googled it, the movie actually came first than the band. which is cool, life imitating art.

when i saw them at the hollywood bowl, i didn't know their music. i went because she & him were playing. but swell season was definitely the highlight. it was the perfect setting too, the night sky and their beautiful songs. i remember it being emotional or it could have just been that my friend nina was in tears their whole set. i also remember that some of glen's songs made me feel like i was in an irish pub. so thanks to the hollywood show, i was familiar with the music in the movie.

it was a very sweet film. glen was very charming in the movie, i loved how he sang his life's love story on the bus. he also was handsome, boy could we rock a grandpa sweater. markéta was endearing, especially how she made life happened and wheel and dealed. i also loved how she dragged that vacuum around town. i did think she was too young to be married with a child (how old is she?). also her eliza doolittle job was a little too much for me. but they were great together and i was a little teary-eyed at the end. it was sad that they couldn't be together but that is life. and it would have ruined the film if they got their hollywood ending. though how did he afford that piano?!?

i think if i watched this while on my period, i would have been in tears every time a song played. i started to get teary-eyed during te piano scene with "falling slowly" that song just brings me to tears:

it was a great film and i am disappointed with myself or waiting so long to see it. however, now i want to see the broadway production of it: