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  1. Sounds like UNDER THE SKIN will be an interesting score in context, although I suspect the idiom will be a bit alienating for many around here:
    http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/m … soundtrack

    When this director last worked with a composer, the result was BIRTH.
    A butterfly thinks therefore I am
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeMar 20th 2014 edited
    Thanks Michael. Very eager for this (and for other natural reasons other than cinematography, music and film wink)
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeMar 28th 2014
    Don't know how this will work in the movie, but as a separate listen it's pretty tough; it's a constant small percussion instrument hitting from piece 1 to end, the same rhythm (stressing every quarter's and half's), isocrates and various viola sfx and clusters above. Certainly a very brave approach for sure.
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
  4. I agree. This won't be a favourite around here. Strangely hypnotic however. 'Love' is very interesting.
    A butterfly thinks therefore I am
  5. I'm listening to this at the moment and I'm liking this a lot.

    Good to hear something that's different, interesting, challenging and listenable.
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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeMar 28th 2014
    Well. Delerue it isn't.
    'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn
  7. Martijn wrote
    Well. Delerue it isn't.

    There's lots that it isn't.
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      CommentAuthorBobdH
    • CommentTimeMar 28th 2014 edited
    I've been looking forward to the film for about a year. Having heard nothing more but the iTunes samples I've decided to listen to the score once I've seen it. Upon hearing the samples I'm sure this couldn't be more emotionally detached, but it must also be exactly what the film needed. Brave, creative scoring that's probably more something to be appreciated for its technique, fascinating as it can be, than really enjoyed?
  9. Though an appreciation can also be enjoyed?
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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeMar 28th 2014
    FalkirkBairn wrote
    Martijn wrote
    Well. Delerue it isn't.

    There's lots that it isn't.


    I see my ironic suggestion that this score is roughly as far removed from anything melodic, lyrical, sensitive, wonderous and (to me) enjoyable as is humanly possible was interpreted as me confusing a dead French composer with a young pop writer from Surrey.

    Apologies, I should have been more clear.
    'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn
  11. Martijn wrote
    FalkirkBairn wrote
    Martijn wrote
    Well. Delerue it isn't.

    There's lots that it isn't.


    I see my ironic suggestion that this score is roughly as far removed from anything melodic, lyrical, sensitive, wonderous and (to me) enjoyable as is humanly possible was interpreted as me confusing a dead French composer with a young pop writer from Surrey.

    Apologies, I should have been more clear.

    biggrin
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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeMar 28th 2014
    wink
    'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn
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      CommentAuthorBobdH
    • CommentTimeMar 28th 2014
    Jup, I reckon this is for all the Marienbad fans wink
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      CommentAuthorBobdH
    • CommentTimeMar 28th 2014
    FalkirkBairn wrote
    Though an appreciation can also be enjoyed?


    Certainly, and I will most likely enjoy this. But I'm sure I'll appreciate it more when I know the context and when it's gotten an emotional frame.
  15. BobdH wrote
    FalkirkBairn wrote
    Though an appreciation can also be enjoyed?


    Certainly, and I will most likely enjoy this. But I'm sure I'll appreciate it more when I know the context and when it's gotten an emotional frame.

    Definitely. This score certainly has me wanting to see the film. A lot of the usual scores, you can work out what's going on in the film a lot of the time by the tone of the music. Here, not at all!
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeMar 28th 2014
    Needs to be seen within the film for sure 'cause on cd, it's slow, pompous, monotonous, constant.
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
  17. Demetris wrote
    Needs to be seen within the film for sure 'cause on cd, it's slow, pompous, monotonous, constant.

    "Pompous"? As in self-important or pretentious?
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  18. Martijn wrote
    wink


    I laughed. kiss
    A butterfly thinks therefore I am
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      CommentAuthorBregt
    • CommentTimeDec 14th 2014
    Mica Levi won the award for European Composer at the European Film Awards
    http://europeanfilmawards.eu/en_EN/home/127909
    Kazoo
  20. Well deserved!
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      CommentAuthorErik Woods
    • CommentTimeDec 14th 2014
    Good grief.

    -Erik-
    host and executive producer of THE CINEMATIC SOUND RADIO PODCAST | www.cinematicsound.net | www.facebook.com/cinematicsound | I HAVE TINNITUS!
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      CommentAuthorBregt
    • CommentTimeDec 29th 2014 edited
    BobdH wrote
    I've been looking forward to the film for about a year. Having heard nothing more but the iTunes samples I've decided to listen to the score once I've seen it. Upon hearing the samples I'm sure this couldn't be more emotionally detached, but it must also be exactly what the film needed. Brave, creative scoring that's probably more something to be appreciated for its technique, fascinating as it can be, than really enjoyed?

    Well, I've seen the movie and thus heard the score in context, and both disappointed me. I really was looking forward to it. The movie succeeds in being creepy and detached indeed but it is also weird and the last scenes and its ending are rather bumpy and uninteresting. I cannot put my finger on it but it became all rather uninteresting after a good start. The music is very good though but also limited because of the movie.

    I'm not sure why this movie ends up in so many Best Of lists. Those who have seen it, please enlighten me.
    Kazoo
  23. Because everyone's opinions are different?
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      CommentAuthorBregt
    • CommentTimeDec 30th 2014
    Of course but I want to know what other members think of this movie, unless I missed those. smile
    Kazoo
  25. It's a film that deliberately holds you at a distance from the main character, so it's never going to be a movie anyone loves. (In fact if any film from the last year relies on 'negative capability', it's this one.) For me, I found its twist on fairy tale motifs thought-provoking, and the fate of the main character enough of a payoff to the journey there. The film's fusion of existing film styles is also very interesting to watch for someone whose had a go at making a film. Nobody makes movies like this, and that can't help but affect the way it comes across. While Chris Nolan basically shoots HBO coverage in IMAX, this filmmaker is searching for a new way to distil story in a frame.

    Some highlights: Her connection with humanity seems to shift on meeting the 'monster' -- in a way, he draws her into humanity more than anyone so far, despite being the most monstrous in appearance; the pitiable image of seeing our unknowable hero suffering a medieval fate (tarred and burned at the stake, like so many women before her).
    A butterfly thinks therefore I am
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      CommentAuthorBregt
    • CommentTimeDec 30th 2014
    True, it's a very unusual movie. I think that it distances me too much to appreciate it more then I do now. Thanks for your feedback.
    Kazoo
  27. Here's my thoughts on the score:

    www.reelmusic.wordpress.com/2014/11/12/ … mica-levi/
    The views expressed in this post are entirely my own and do not reflect the opinions of maintitles.net, or for that matter, anyone else. http://www.racksandtags.com/falkirkbairn
  28. I see in one recent review of Pablo Larraín's movie, Jackie, starring Natalie Portman, that Larraín "drowns his film with a cacophonous score by Under the Skin composer Mica Levi that burrows uncomfortably deep" with another review of the film accusing the director of "leaning a little too hard on (Under the Skin composer) Mica Levi’s warped string score. Don’t be mistaken, Levi wrote a terrifically interesting score, but Larraín’s slight over-reliance on it".

    Definitely interested to hear this one. Hope that it gets some kind of a release.
    The views expressed in this post are entirely my own and do not reflect the opinions of maintitles.net, or for that matter, anyone else. http://www.racksandtags.com/falkirkbairn
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeSep 29th 2016 edited
    My colleagues absolutely loved the film (they saw it in Venice), and since Larrain's NERUDA is one of my favourite films of the year, I have high expectations for this.

    As for the score, I think the description sounds tantalizing -- looking forward to hearing it in context more than on album (as with UNDER THE SKIN).
    I am extremely serious.
  30. Thor wrote
    As for the score, I think the description sounds tantalizing -- looking forward to hearing it in context more than on album (as with UNDER THE SKIN).

    As with Under The Skin, if the music is particularly 'attractive' away from the film, then I will seek the movie out.
    The views expressed in this post are entirely my own and do not reflect the opinions of maintitles.net, or for that matter, anyone else. http://www.racksandtags.com/falkirkbairn

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