CALL ME SNAKE

I’ve been wanting to see the movie “Once” for about six months now and finally got around to it last night. The expectations have been high for all this time and few movies can live up to a buildup like that. But this one did. The title is apt because it is an original movie like nothing you’ve ever seen before. I was particularly struck by a scene–and, in fact, a couple of scenes–in which the two leads, Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, walk the streets of Dublin, with Irglova towing a vacuum cleaner during their jaunt. As I said, it’s like nothing you’ve ever seen before.