Reviewed This Week: Once

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Music plays many roles in John Carney’s new film Once.

It provides the story with its structure, the characters with their motivations and the theme with the nuances of emotional complexity.

While conventional musicals use lyrics as an alternative to dialogue, Once uses song in a much more subtle and organic way. It ...