This film tells the romantic love story of a flower girl (Markéta Irglová) and a street musician (Glen Hansard) who became attached to music in Dublin, the Irish capital.

It used to be a very fresh and elegant love sketch. It has no familiar dead ringer and fancy photography skills, but it is gripping with sincere life breath and life sentiment.

The naturalistic expression adopted by director john kani hides the exaggeration of all film techniques and makes the realistic scenes and dialogues stand out naturally. With the help of natural music, the process of watching movies is like a wonderful spiritual journey.

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Once behind-the-scenes tidbits:

The filming plan of Once began in 2005 when Frames gave a concert in Dublin. As a filmmaker with a musical background, director john kani hopes to find a simple background and plot, choose some songs acceptable to modern audiences, shoot a non-traditional musical film, and tell a modern simple love story with a large number of songs.

John kani, the director of this film, aims to present the true face of Dublin as much as possible. Therefore, when shooting a group of scenes that need to be shot with a long lens on the street, the staff are far away. Most passers-by didn't know that their every move was captured by the director in the camera, and one of the onlookers rushed into the shooting scene without knowing it, injuring the person who played the thief in the film.