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Another soundtrack of note: Yann Tiersen's work for Amelie is just superb. It sounds stereotypically "French" enough - accordion, crackly old chansons, etc - but is so... penetrating, I guess. It just works - puts me very in mind of the scores that Zbignew Priesner knocked out for the Three Colours series of movies, in terms of having recurrent motifs. Just lovely, lovely stuff - jaunty, though with an air of despair behind it, particularly in the piano only pieces, which sound to me like the guy's listened to a lot of Glass, Satie and Nyman. And distilled the best bits of all of them.
The soundtrack works on its own amazingly well - when I was in the theatre, I was struck by it, but noted how well it fit with the vividly-coloured pictures; instrumental to the feeling of the film, but not going "hey! I'm theme music! Look at me!". You noticed it, but it wasn't the focus. Which is a good thing, I think. |
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}. I'm sure Quincy Jones scored a bunch of flicks. So, how's about givin' it up fo' tha brothers? 
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