Once was written and directed by John Carney, a former bassist for The Frames. Born in 1988 in Moravia, Czech Republic, she began playing the piano and guitar as a child and studied classical music. Hansard has spent the past 15 years writing and recording with The Frames, while Irglova was just 17 when she made Once. Hansard had a small part in the 1991 film The Committments, but Irglova is a first-time actor. Versions of the songs wound up in the movie, and in several cases also appear on The Frames' recent CD, The Cost. The movie, which also stars Hansard and Irglova, tells a guy-meets-girl love story largely through song.īefore making the film, Hansard and Irglova recorded a collection of songs together titled The Swell Season. Hansard is frontman for the Irish rock band The Frames, while the Czech-born Irglova is a classically trained singer, and their music serves as the centerpiece of the surprise hit film Once. The Swell Season live in Washington, D.C. Once was the first film for the Czech-born, classically trained Irglova, 20. Hansard, 38, is the frontman for the Irish rock band The Frames, and had acted previously in the 1991 art-house hit The Commitments. After filming, Fox Searchlight put us in a tour bus together, and it just felt natural. He kept joking and calling us his Bogart and Bacall. As Hansard told The Washington Post, "About the third day in, John started predicting that we'd get together. It wasn't entirely a surprise: The two had known each other for years, and even their director could see it coming. It was art imitating life, and perhaps the other way around: Hansard, who plays a Dublin street busker, spent years on the city's streets in real life, earning his keep with his the same battered guitar he plays in the film.Īnd he and the Czech-born Irglova, who plays an immigrant songwriter, found themselves falling in love in much the way their characters do. Oscar-winning songwriters Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova wrote "Falling Slowly" for their film, Once.
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