Once!

Once is a 2006 Irish musical film written and directed by John Carney.

Set in Dublin, this naturalistic drama stars musicians Glen Hansard (of popular Irish rock band The Frames) and Markéta Irglová as struggling musicians. Collaborators prior to making the film, Hansard and Irglová composed and performed all of the original songs in the movie.

Shot for only €130,000 (US$160,000), the film was successful, earning substantial per-screen box office averages in the United States. It received enthusiastic reviews and awards such as the 2007 Independent Spirit Award for best foreign film.

Hansard and Irglová's song "Falling Slowly" received a 2007 Academy Award for Best Original Song and the soundtrack as a whole also received a Grammy nomination.

The film is about a pair of frustration in the life of the strange men and women, in an unexpected encounter, and found they both share a common love for music, then whom recorded a music album together. in this process, each body in the other direction and courage to find life, and then to find their own dream of such a story.