Fiona: Are you retarded?
Aidan: Why does everybody keep asking me that?
If you’re going to create a drama that’s based on only two characters and reliant on dialogue, you’d better have the ability to write and back up the ambition that comes with the territory. Alexander’s drama is a film that wasn’t an immediate win for me, I’ll admit; I found it cliché, a bit redone, and lagging. But upon further delving into the story, “A New and Accurate…” is a rather tight drama romance with an interesting inadvertent allusion to “Eternal Sunshine…” with a hint of “Before Sunrise.”
The Irish musical “Once” by John Carney is very much of a gentle and quaint little elegy of life and love much like the subtle whisper that was “Me You and Everyone We Know.” Going in and out of theaters with barely a notice, it’s a shocker something so powerful as “Once” could go almost completely unnoticed. It’s just a painful crime that something as beautiful and utterly riveting as Carney’s “Once” could just completely be dismissed as another indie drama when really it’s a truly powerful musical.