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Six: Your favorite use of music in a film?

Ugh this question is v. special to me, because it’s what I pay most attention to when watching a film. A “great” film can be ruined for me if they don’t use a soundtrack that heightens the audience’s emotional response and helps create the world the director’s trying to transport us to. 

I have a few composers whose work I really love. Abel Korzeniowski, especially in A Single Man (but to a degree in W.E. too, but the movie itself is not worth watching), is probably my favourite. I don’t know how many times I’ve listened to the soundtrack just by itself. In the movie itself though, I feel it really pairs nicely with the film’s manipulation of colour and focus. A flurry of snow is created by the track of the same name, and images and sensory experiences of water are created by the tracks called Drowning and Swimming. Every single track is overflowing with emotion and melody, and it just makes the whole movie charged with sorrow, gravity and life. Idk this soundtrack is my everything.

Alexandre Desplat is great too. Best known for his soundtracks for the last two Harry Potter films, and many of Wes Anderson’s more recent films, he’s the greatest at experimenting with orchestration/instrumentation! In Moonrise Kingdom, Benjamin Britten’s “Cuckoo” and Desplat’s The Heroic Weather-Conditions of the Universe are beyond amazing (the latter features pretty much every Western instrument and some I’d never heard of before). The stuff in The Grand Budapest Hotel is great too.

Andrew Hewitt’s work in both of Richard Ayoade’s films, Submarine (not to mention the stuff by Alex Turner) and The Double. His compositions really help to build the worlds Ayoade’s going for, over-dramatic and romanticized in the former, and dreary and bleak in the latter.

Shout-out as well to Dario Marianelli, in Atonement, who uses a typewriter as a percussion instrument to bring out the fact that the whole film is merely Briony’s imagination and re-invention of the past. 

Oh and Zbigniew Preisner in La double vie de Veronique and Trois Couleurs: Bleu. He composes these monsters of pieces that are stunning on their own, but add so much depth to the films and demand the attention of the audience. I recommend A Song for the Unification of Europe, and the Van de Budenmayer Concerto in E Minor!

Sorry for the huge reply, Charles! You know how important bande-sonores are 2 mi.

Dix-sept: Your favorite performance by a lead actress? Explain why.

That’s also a tough one. Emmanuelle Riva’s performance in Amour as a sufferer of a stroke who slowly but continually deteriorates as the film unravels was sometimes too much to take. She did it so well though.

Anne Dorval (J’ai tué ma mère, Mommy, let’s put in Le coeur a ses raisons just for diversity’s sake) in anything ever is always a close contender too :)

34/ what I find attractive in women: i have no idea, never felt attracted to a girl but i’m sure it would be their personality above everything

35/ what I find attractive in men: i mean, physically? i didn’t understand the question but here we go. their attitude and sense of humor. their back, torso and arms. their taste in music and their knowledge.

43/ sexiest person that comes to my mind immediately: zayn malik