The Swell Season (film)
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Chris Dapkins
Carlo Mirabella-Davis
Markéta Irglová
| The Swell Season | |
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| Directed by | Nick August-Perna Chris Dapkins Carlo Mirabella-Davis |
| Produced by | Carlo Mirabella-Davis |
| Starring | Glen Hansard Markéta Irglová |
| Cinematography | Chris Dapkins |
| Edited by | Nick August-Perna |
| Music by | Glen Hansard Markéta Irglová |
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Running time | 91 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Swell Season is a 2011 American documentary film directed by Nick August-Perna, Chris Dapkins and Carlo Mirabella-Davis.
After the success of the Irish movie Once and an Academy Award win, duo Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová became known all around the world. While Hansard has already been touring for many years, this experience is new to Irglová. She doesn't feel like a prominent person and does feel uncomfortable with all the media attention. Their personal relationship is threatened to fall apart under these often unmanageable circumstances and dynamics.
Background
When the band The Swell Season went on tour, after the success of the movie Once, Hansard asked his film teacher Carlo Mirabella-Davis to document the tour. The documentary was filmed between 2007 and 2010 by Mirabella-Davis and his co-directors Chris Dapkins and Nick August-Perna. Originally, the documentary should have become a classic music documentary. That changed, however, when the directors shot at Hansard's parents house. The film now became more of a documentary documenting the "burden of dreams and the gradual dissolution or transformation of a romantic relationship".[1][2] During the shooting the relationship of Hansard and Irglova broke apart.[3] The film was shot in black and white and shows the protagonists Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová on their tour and at home.[4] It was cut from over 200 hours of film footage.[5]