A Very Long Engagement [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
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Composer: Angelo BadalamentiEdition: Music CD
Audio: French (Original Language); German (Original Language)
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2004-12-07
Music Label: Nonesuch
Soundtracks:
- Main Title /The Trenches
- First Love Touch
- Heartbeat to a Gunshot
- Matilde's Theme
- EloideÂ?s Theme
- Kissing Through Glass
- Massage Fantasy
- Never Had the Child
- The Man from Corsica
- Our SoldiersÂ? Letters
- Why Do You Cry?
- End Titles
Music reviews of A Very Long Engagement [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
Music Review: "Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Sebastian Japrisot & Badalamenti"
Rating: 4 Stars
Nonesuch Records presents "Very Long Engagement", the score by composer Angelo Badalamenti...born 3/22/1937 Brooklyn New York, has the rare gift of capturing the essence of a film through his music...he can reach out a touch the audience with this World War I Jean-Pierre Jeunet film from Sebastian Japrisot's era novel...just sit back and behold this directors character and incident development with Badalamenti's magical score.
The film is well over two hours, yet it holds the interest with several plots with voice over narration...the film will draw you in as Badalamenti's music takes you to places and times before you were born and lays them before you...his musical brilliance will mesmerize and entertain you with a sweet after taste.
Angelo's score is very different from his previous outings "The Straight Story"[1999] and "Mulholland Drive"[2001] both nominated for best original scores by the Golden Globe people...but better known for his "Twin Peaks" themes that are still popular even today..."Very Long Engagement", has created individual melodies within a melody...french horns, strings and choral cues are moody and at times powerful...his talent can quench the thirst of many a "film-score-buff".
One can hardly pick a stand out, entire score draws on slow tempos with blends of original sentiment during that time in World War I history..."HEARTBEAT TO A GUNSHOT" and "KISSING THROUGH THE GLASS", gorgeous melodies and arrangements with tender loving care prevail...orchestration serves up a serenely unforgettable performance...every cue sneaks into your head and you're loving every minute of it...just the way we like 'em!
Total Time: 44:45 pm 13 Tracks ~ Nonesuch 79880 ~ (12/07/2004)
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From Warner Independent, a new division of Warner Bros. Pictures, comes "A Very Long Engagement" ? a love story set during World War I featuring the director and star of "Amelie," Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Audrey Tautou. With a box-office total of $152 million, "Amelie" is one of the most popular foreign language films of recent years. Director Jeunet?s "Engagement" is the biggest budget French film in history, opening on 800 screens in its home country. Based on the acclaimed novel by Sebastien Japrisot, the story takes place at the close of the war, when Mathilde(Tautou) receives word that her fiancee is one of five wounded soldiers who have been court-martialed and forced into the no-man?s-land between the French and German lines to die an almost certain death. Unwilling to accept that her lover is lost to her forever, Mathilde embarks on an investigation, strengthened by a steadfast hope. In her quest to discover his fate, she is drawn deeper into the horrors of war and the indelible marks it leaves on those whose lives it has touched. The orchestral score is by Angelo Badalamenti ("Twin Peaks," "Mulholland Drive," "The Company," "The Straight Story," "Lost Highway"), conducted by Phil Marshall.Employing the stunning, kinetic visual sense that made his reputation via Delicatessen, City of Lost Children and Amelie, French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet turned Sebastien Japrisot's compelling World War I novel into the biggest budgeted film ever produced in his home country. To musically season his often downbeat epic, Jeunet again utilizes Lost Children's composer, Angelo Badalamenti, and the American rises to the occasion with a brooding score that evokes dignified melancholy at every turn. While its shadowy introspection and brief passages of electronica only distantly recall Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks and his other collaborations with David Lynch, his work here is utterly devoid of their often pop-ironic kitsch. Instead, writing in the powerful, modernist milieu of Herrmann and Howard Shore, Badalamenti's score turns repeatedly on a brief, mournful phrase for muted brass, a five-note motif that serves as the emotional anchor for one of the composer's most elegant exercises in orchestral understatement. -- Jerry McCulley
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