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, Which captured hearts with its unabashed romanticism and the real-life love story of Hansard and Irglova that served as its backstory. The pair were further solidified as public sweethearts when "Falling Slowly", one of the songs from the film, won an Academy Award, and the pair were played off the podium before Marketa had a chance to give her speech; host Jon Stewart brought her back on after the commercial, and she gave one of the most inspirational thank yous of the evening.Filmmakers Chris Dapkins, Carlo Mirabella-Davis and Nick August-Perna had never seen Once , and weren't familiar with the musical careers of its stars when they were approached to make a tour film about the two-plus year tour that followed their Oscar win. Not only that, but they didn't even have a background in music films. As they related in last night's Q&A after the movie, Dapkins' background was in experimental film, while August-Perna was just finishing up his graduate work in film, and went into the project while intensive studies of Carl Theodor Dreyer were still fresh in his head.
The odd blend of experience and unfamiliarity works to their advantage. Dapkins shot on a digital HD camera, but with a complex mix of film lenses that give the black and white film a slightly timeless look. Their observational style -- which, over the course of many weeks of shooting during a couple of years, yielded some intensely personal footage of the tension of the road and the balancing of public and private personas in a band -- recalls D.A. Pennebaker's work in the 1967 Bob Dylan doc, Don't Look Back .
That made it an appropriate opening night choice for a festival that's giving special honors to Pennebaker this year, but it also represented a confident choice on the festival's part. In past years, the opening film has been high profile or a glossy crowd pleaser . But this intimate, often sad documentary about a musical duo that much of the crowd (based on a show of hands) had never heard of, proved that Silverdocs no longer needs to rely on the marquee value of a LeBron James or a gaggle of A-list documentarians to kick off their week.
Instead, they relied on the strength of a skillful little film from first-time documentarians who managed to capture the turmoil of two people falling slowly, but falling apart, rather than in love. Through their lens, we see a pair dealing with the fallout of success in entirely different ways, as Hansard filters his own success through his years of struggling for it, and the uncomfortable relationship with his family that influenced it, while Irglova, only 19 through much of the film, is shell-shocked, only just now coming into her own. Watching the film, even with its sporadic glimpses of over two years of touring, is in many ways watching her grow up.
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If you don't think myth remains a large part of contemporary culture, you probably haven't been paying close attention to the evening news, the Discovery Channel, or the Internet, where stories of the fantastic, inexplicable, or just plain dumb abound.
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