'Swell Season': 'Once' Stars Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová Fall In Love, Break Up In New Documentary

Fans of Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, stars and star-crossed lovers of the hit indie musical film "Once," might know that the Academy-Award winning couple embarked on a real life romance during the original promotional tour for that film. He was pushing 40 and she was barely out of her teenage years, but the two created some beautiful music together, starting up a band, The Swell Season, and touring all over the world.

At the same time, three filmmakers -- Nick August-Perna, Chris Dapkins and Carlo Mirabella-Davis -- were documenting the rising success of the two musicians, as well as chronicling their love story, which unfortunately came unraveled.

"The Swell Season" doc premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival back in June. The Hollywood Reporter called it "a bruised-but-sweet flip side to Once's dreamy love song," and IndieWire said it contains "remarkable scenes of vulnerability," and the result is "charming and polished."

Check out the trailer below:

Comments

[iRock]

10:22 AM on 10/02/2011

That man can sing.

[SteveDenver]

03:04 AM on 10/02/2011

Glenn and Marketa shared such intense experiences surrounding the making of and incredible reception of the film and its music. It's wonderful that they shared romance, and human that it wasn't eternal.

They have given us so much to enjoy and I look forward to hearing about their endeavors.

[doctorcastille]

07:58 AM on 09/30/2011

A rare film ("Once"). My daughter and I loved it equally - we even covered the theme song and stuck it on youtube. (shameless self-bump)... http://youtu.be/DH1nLyn5hEQ

[IrishgirlsUSA]

12:59 AM on 09/30/2011

Irish people are not big on happy endings. Look at the movies The Commitments and Once - no well rounded happy endings there. I don't think that we have heard the end of either of these two yet. It must be difficult to have your love life filmed like that. I hope they both find happiness.

[Tuigim]

11:32 PM on 09/29/2011

The Swell Season documentary will be shown on Sept 30th in Los Angeles
http://www.lairishfilm.com/
Tickets available from this site
Aero theater
See you there, Angelinos

[cameron d]

11:46 AM on 09/29/2011

The Swell Season are wonderful.

[bjrudell]

07:22 AM on 09/29/2011

So sad that they broke up. But "Once" was incredible, and it's wonderful that they found each other, at least for a short time.