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With Oscar fever dominating the cinema headlines this weekend, Fiona Smith traces a low-budget film's journey from Dublin to Hollywood.With a shoestring budget, inexperienced actors, and eight full-length songs, the film Once, about a lonely busker falling for a Czech musician and flower seller, has wound its unlikely way from Dublin's Grafton Street to the Oscars.
The story behind Once is as romantic as it is boundary-blurring with the Oscar-nominated song Falling Slowly having particular resonance for the film's stars, singer songwriter Glen Hansard and Czech musician Marketa Irglova, who started out as friends and are now a couple.
Hansard, who has been making music with The Frames, one of Ireland's most popular independent bands, for the last 17 years, told Ireland's national broadcaster RTE that he was "floored" by the nomination.
"Look what our little film went and did," he said, speaking from the Czech Republic where he and Irglova like to spend a lot of their time these days.
Hansard admits that he likes the film's biographical aspect.
"I did busk, I know what it's about, I didn't have to act, I knew Marketa Irglova, John had been the bass player in my band for years," he told the Irish Times.
Director John Carney quit Hansard's band The Frames in 1993 to make films.
"So there were a lot of parallels between the film and my life. He knew all my stories because he was right in the middle of it. There was a safety net and it felt comfortable."
What has been slightly less comfortable however has been the reaction in Ireland, which has ranged from near-indifference to the film being nominated for a "gooseberry" award, honouring worst performances, for its allegedly sick-making qualities.
Hansard puts it down to a certain over-fondness for iconoclasm in the Irish character mixed with a hostility towards anything resembling loftiness about art.
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