Here's the trailer for the new French film Desplat scored. Sounds like his score over the second half, including a Russian chorus.
It's a strange Europudding production - French/Belgian-produced, about the sinking of a Russian submarine, in English, with Dutch, British, French, and Swedish lead actors.
It premieres at Toronto this week and comes out in France in November. Hopefully there will be a French CD when it's released there. The film has no US release date.
I saw the film yesterday. The music is very sparse in it. There's a wonderful Russian flavoured melody, some harsh music during the dark scenes and a Russian orthodox church song (I think the Russian flavoured melody I mentioned before is based on this song. It may happen that it was actually written by Desplat, I don't know.)
I think there's probably 15-20 minutes of score in the movie if my memory serves right.
It actually had a contractual obligation release in the "Los Angeles area" a few weeks ago, playing only at the Galaxy Mission Grove (possibly only once or twice a day). I didn't know it was retitled or being released until the Onion AV Club panned it that week.
It actually had a contractual obligation release in the "Los Angeles area" a few weeks ago, playing only at the Galaxy Mission Grove (possibly only once or twice a day). I didn't know it was retitled or being released until the Onion AV Club panned it that week.
Between this and The Mercy, films starring Colin Firth based on real-life oceanic tragedies are not exactly a sure bet, to say the least.
Yowza, that's terrible. The reviews out of Toronto weren't wretched, just mediocre.
At least someone posted the music from the 5.1 surrounds on the French Blu-Ray. I don't know if that's considered "allowed" here, if not, please tell me and I'll take down the link. However, since YouTube hasn't taken it down, I'm assuming it's okay:
Yeah, I saw it was available on NRK's web player, FB. Want to see it, as I like submarine movies and have seen pretty much every film in the genre except this one, but feels uncomfortable to see a film about Russian military in this day and age. But I'll try to leave those thoughts behind. Danish ex-Dogme filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg is the director, so that makes it extra interesting.
