Oct 15, 2023Liked by Sarah Welch-Larson, Kevin McLenithan
Kevin, I couldn’t agree with you more. As someone who loved Once (both on film and stage) and was a little less enthralled with Sing Street, this 3rd film unfortunately continued Carney’s downward trajectory. You hit it on the head when you said the human relationships are truly fantastic, unrealistic and unfulfilling. (Stll miss hearing you on the podcast.)
Thanks for reading, Ron (and for your kind subscription note). I'm married to a big musical-theater person, so maybe I'll catch up with the stage show of ONCE if it ever gets revived, but it's hard to imagine it matching the film.
Kevin, I couldn’t agree with you more. As someone who loved Once (both on film and stage) and was a little less enthralled with Sing Street, this 3rd film unfortunately continued Carney’s downward trajectory. You hit it on the head when you said the human relationships are truly fantastic, unrealistic and unfulfilling. (Stll miss hearing you on the podcast.)
Thanks for reading, Ron (and for your kind subscription note). I'm married to a big musical-theater person, so maybe I'll catch up with the stage show of ONCE if it ever gets revived, but it's hard to imagine it matching the film.
Of course by the time I saw the stage musical I knew all the songs by heart so it made it pretty easy to like the theater production.
Don't forget about Begin Again! Another John Carney musical I like quite a bit.
Thanks for the reminder! I tend to forget about the Carney connection with that one because of the lack of Ireland in it.
True. The others definitely seem to go together well, though Begin Again is still characteristically Carney.
Haven't seen the new one yet, so looking forward to seeing it onebif these days!