It’s always sad when a tiny movie goes unpublicized. When it’s a foreign film with little American distribution we get it, but when there’s an Academy Award winner involved it’s that much more triste.
Glen Hansard, the Oscar-winning composer of “Once” (along with Markéta Irglová) had some songs featured in the Czech Republic “Beauty in Trouble” directed by Jan Hrebejk, but no one seems to have noticed the film, let alone the music.
The movie which was completed in 2006, limped into U.S. theaters earlier this summer and well, came and went (though you can still find it in theaters here and there, but barely). Hansard didn’t compose original music in the film, but the Frames/Swell Season singer songwriter did have 4 songs featured in the film, including the same Oscar-winning song, “Falling Slowly” from “Once,” which is probably the reason why it was overshadowed (the connection is Hansard’s girlfriend Irglova who is also Czech).
But wait. ‘Beauty’ was made in 2006 and so was “Once,” but the songs – including that “Falling Slowly” song were composed specifically for “Once” even though they were on the Swell Season album in the same year, right? We don’t exactly when ‘Beauty’ was made or released aside from IMDB saying 2006, but that’s some interesting math and it’s no wonder the Academy had such issue with the song’s Oscar eligibilty earlier this
year (both films seemed to debut separately in their respective countries in the July of 2006, spaced out by only a few days).”Beauty In Trouble” also features songs by Czech singer Raduza and an original score by Ales Brezina.
Trailer: “Beauty In Trouble” (which features “Falling Slowly”)