Oscar surprise!

Happened to pick up a DVD of "Once" from my univ library this week. Saw it a couple of days back. I was quite distracted, yet the film kept sucking me in. It's brilliant, honest, private texture and music, the realism of the two actors, and the story of meeting by chance, and then separating - everything somehow reminded me of "Before Sunset". I was still distracted after the film got over, so I didn't find out much about the film, but the music kept haunting me.

Cut to Oscar night. Watching the ceremony distractedly, with the initial enthusiasm running thin, a song begins to play. I'm bewildered! Where have I heard it before, I ask myself. The guy playing the guitar - the woman on the piano - where have I seen them before?

Its the song from the film "Once", and the actors singing on stage at the Oscars! I google it within seconds and find out that the film has won lots of awards and Grammy's for the music! And as I write this, the two - Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová - have just WON AN OSCAR!!!!

The film, Glen says, was shot with two handycams in three weeks with only $100,000!
They give me hope :)

The song is lovely. Enjoy!