AML Movie Review: “Once” and “Breach”

// July 9th, 2007 // fun

Once

We heard about this film from Ebert and Roper, an Irish musical sort of that was at Sundance and just amazing. Well, I have to mark it down as the best movie I’ve seen so far this year.

I still can’t stop thinking about it. The story is simple. A guy plays music on the streets and he’s brilliant. And he meets a girl who plays the piano and they play some music together and it goes from there. The music is haunting and totally brilliant. The two actors are singer/songwriters, but you couldn’t tell they aren’t true actors. They were perfect…everything about it was perfect.

It’s like a musical, but not really. You get sucked into the music, you feel it…but you also watch these two and just feel it all. I dunno how else to put it…this film will sit with me for a long time.

Breach

We saw this on DVD this past weekend…great little movie that probably didn’t get enough props. The story is about the FBI task force that went after their own intelligence agent who was a spy for the Russians for about 35 years. It’s a great movie, good writing, nice performances and a chilling sample of what happens in the world of espionage.

5 Responses to “AML Movie Review: “Once” and “Breach””

  1. Movie roundup : A Mike Life says:
    July 16, 2007 at 2:03 pm

    [...] movie, I’d blink a few times and go “wha huh?”. We saw the preview for it during Once and also on Ebert and Roper. Great movie, but not a movie as much as a collection of very short [...]

  2. Once appearance : A Mike Life says:
    August 2, 2007 at 10:42 am

    [...] movie Once, which is basically my top movie of the year so far, had songs written and performed by Glen [...]

  3. The People’s Choice awards suck says:
    November 29, 2007 at 7:41 pm

    [...] as far as Independent Films, Once and Paris je t’aime were spectacular films and should be [...]

  4. AML DVD Picks for 12/18/07 says:
    December 18, 2007 at 7:57 am

    [...] This is the week I’ve been waiting for since I first watched the movie back in early July of this year. [...]

  5. AML’s Top 10 movies from 2007 says:
    February 19, 2008 at 6:17 am

    [...] don’t know what it is about Once and what it did to me, but it will always be one of my favorites of all-time. A simple film, with [...]

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