ORIGINAL MUSIC (FROM MOVIES)
Scarlet – MovieScore Media (January 11, 2023)
• (At the cinema on 11-01)
Gabriel Yared meets Italian director Pietro Marcello, who called on Marco Messina for his first film “Martin Eden” (2019). Its orchestral score incorporates harp, mandolin, flutes, oboe, cello, horn… giving this period family chronicle and this mysterious romance the trappings of a timeless tale. We see a young woman in a river like a mermaid. Daughter of a lower-class manual worker (Juliette Jouan), she aspires to become a poet and a musician, and embraces a young adventurer (Louis Garrel). She performs some original songs composed by Yared, while the father plays the accordion. The film is about belief in one’s dreams and emancipation from one’s environment. Oscillating between harshness and poetry, the film provides almost silent moments, where the music takes up all the space without the sounds, or on the contrary the sound (water, wind) is the only auditory element. The musical placement is also sharpened, never during the strong moments (of love or violence).
– Idol (January 6, 2023)
• (At the cinema on 04-01)
Rob (Robin Coudert) signs the music for this thriller, the first feature film by Guillaume Renusson, on a hunt for migrants in the heart of the Italian Alps (we think of Essential Killing), with textures and electronic sounds that maintain the mystery that hovers around of the snowy mountain and which sustain the tension of a hunt, as well as strings, a flute and a discreet vocal presence to represent humanity and solidarity relationships. The ample landscapes give way to a score that is both anxiety-provoking and intimate.
Father & Soldier – Sony Music Label (January 6, 2023) – CD + Vinyl
• (At the cinema on 04-01)
Alexandre Desplat signs the music for Mathieu Vadepied’s war film about Senegalese fighters during the First World War. The score supports the tension and the threat in the trenches and on the battlefield (with percussion, dissonant or rhythmic strings, electronic textures), while a plaintive trumpet or clarinet relays the sadness of a human loss and magnifies the homage paid to these skirmishers right up to the addition of a piano for the solemn aspect of a medal ceremony.
– Back Lot Music (January 6, 2023)
• (At the cinema on 28-12)
Anthony Willis (“Promising Young Woman”) signs the music of Gerard Johnstone’s SF thriller with a score of strings and piano that breathes mystery and emotion into an intelligent cyber doll with a zest of enchantment through a vocal presence for move towards horror and action while evolving towards dissonance.
– The academy of the act (January 4, 2023)
• (At the cinema on 04-01)
Michel Korb signs the music for the spiritual documentary by Arnaud Riou & Maud Baigneres to meet shamans, healers, yogis, philosophers, from the plains of Mongolia to the forests of Amazonia. The score recounts the adventure by coloring in different geographies (flutes, oriental voices) while tracing a meditative path through its soft and aerial sounds.
The Offering – Millennium Media (January 13, 2023)
• (At the cinema on 11-01)
Christopher Young (“Hellraiser”, “Simetierre”) signs the music for Oliver Park’s horror film.
ORIGINAL MUSIC (SERIES)
– Milan Records (January 6, 2023)
• 6 episodes on Netflix (05-01)
Cliff Martinez finds the Danish Nicolas Winding Refn on a crime series after “Too Old to Die Young” (2019), with Peter Peter & Julian Winding. Three composers for an electronic score oscillating between the atmospheric, the noisy and the minimal techno, between the distressing, the dancing and the tortured.
– Invada Records (January 6, 2023)
• 6 episodes on Amazon Prime Video (06-01)
Blanck Mass (Benjamin John Power, member of the British electro group F*ck Buttons) signs the music for the British series by David Macpherson, a thriller set on an oil platform off the coast of Scotland, with a crew trapped between the shore and the outside world. We hear in the score metallic percussive sounds as well as hovering, dissonant, even lyrical electronics (à la Vangelis).
Soundtrack releases: film music available on January 7, 2023