Susan Hated Literature

Dir & Writ: John Carney

• Glen Hansard - Guy
• Markéta Irglová - Girl

A busker and a Bis Issue seller meet on the streets of Dublin. He also repairs hoovers, which is handy, as she has a problem with hers.^[1] He fixes it. She asks him to sing. They talk and chat and sing and write songs. Eventually they even record a song.

Not much of a storyline it it?

But this is still a very charming, if slight film. And if you are a fan of Glen Hansard’s music then I’m sure you’ll enjoy it. Personally, I like a lot of The Frames stuff, but I don’t love any of it, and often think that Hansard gets a bit too whiney at times. I couldn’t listen to him all day long. Still I did enjoy the music in this film, and that is important because there is a lot of it.

I’ve tagged this film a romance, but it isn’t really. It is more of a film about people getting on in life. A moment in time. All that sort of thing. It is a small film but an enjoyable one.

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Of course bloggers are blogging about it, but I’m not going to. It’d be pointless.

Instead let us turn to a more light and frothy part of life. An antidote if you will. You know, like the story that Galway’s water is still pretty poisonous or the one about the UN workers killed in a bomb attack. Or possibly the one about US soldiers killing Iraqi police, by mistake.

Yeah, I lied about the light and frothy.

Still, don’t despair. Cause look via Human Under Construction it is a Cuteness Buffer: