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Yikes. Always amazes me how trailers cut for American audiences (and I'm an American) force everything to look broad and comedic. I always seek out foreign trailers and I'm always amazed at how different, and how much better, they are. Here's a French trailer (still in English, just with French subs) for the film:
http://cineuropa.org/en/video/354909/
Interesting choice of music here. The song "Feeling Good" is by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley from their 1964 musical "The Roar Of The Greasepaint-The Smell of The Crowd".
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Sep 10, 2018 - 1:39 PM
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Kirkinson
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“Composer Alexandre Desplat does some of his best work here; it’s challenging for any film scorer to summon the spirit of the West without aping Elmer Bernstein or Ennio Morricone, but his grasp of the material never wavers into pastiche.”
https://www.thewrap.com/the-sisters-brothers-film-review-john-c-reilly-joaquin-phoenix-jake-gyllenhaal-riz-ahmed/
“Regular collaborator Alexandre Desplat, who has scored most of Audiard’s films, continues his streak. It’s unclear if Desplat is capable of writing a mediocre score and his stirring, faintly melancholy music (with some subtle nods to Spaghetti Westerns), does a lot of subconscious work, sowing the seeds of sentiment for when the movie becomes disarmingly emotional in the last act.”
https://theplaylist.net/sisters-brothers-venice-review-20180902/
Indiewire’s review also briefly describes the score as “jangly,” which I’m guessing means...steel guitars? Banjos?
EDIT: I also saw this on letterboxd:
“Alexandre Desplat’s score, which starts the film as a rawhide hoot, also becomes more modern and droney as it goes on; as the story and the countryside evolves, so do the notes.”
And this, with another good candidate for what makes the score “jangly”:
“Deeply enjoyable with some tricky but well-executed tonal shifts. Never seen a cymbalom in a Western before.”
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Oct 27, 2018 - 8:15 PM
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joan hue
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Ray, you and I are almost identical in our tastes, but we differ on this score and movie. I am glad it all worked for you.
I liked Riley, but overall, I didn't really care for this movie. It just didn't resonate with me.
Also, I knew it would not be an Americana, rousing score, but I still expected something better from Desplat. I like a lot of his work. For me the score sounded too modern and really rather dull. I felt he didn't put much energy into most of the score. For me it didn't have any depth.
Still, glad you enjoyed it, and I shall continue to look forward to more westerns,.
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