Once

We watched Once last night - it won the best song Oscar in 2008.  It's a sweet, sad, beautiful film that manages to be about reaching for your dreams and having unfulfilled desire at the same time.  I'd heard about its natural documentary-style simplicity and wanted to see it, and finally managed to.

Every time they started singing I got all weepy.  What I love about this film is the naive joy these people have in making art.  It's like breathing - there's a directness and total lack of ego in the way they play and sing, even in the way they act.  They are totally focussed on what they are making and you can see how it feeds them just to make it.  When you see artists making art for the simple love and need of making it, and not out of the needs of the self, it is so moving.

I miss that.