Angelo Badalamenti, A Very Long Engagement - 47m 36s

Tracks & Durations

1. The Trenches	4:57
2. First Love Touch	3:57
3. Heartbeat to a Gunshot	4:31
4. Mathilde's Theme	4:21
5. Secret Code	5:03
6. Elodie's Theme	2:46
7. Kissing through Glass	2:10
8. Massage Fantasy	2:27
9. Never Had the Child	2:27
10. The Man From Corsica	2:46
11. Our Soldiers' Letters	2:46
12. Why Do You Cry ?	2:21
13. End Titles	6:55

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Review

Employing the stunning, kinetic visual sense that made his reputation via Delicatessen, City of Lost Children and Amelie, French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet turned Sebastien Japrisot's compelling World War I novel into the biggest budgeted film ever produced in his home country. To musically season his often downbeat epic, Jeunet again utilizes Lost Children's composer, Angelo Badalamenti, and the American rises to the occasion with a brooding score that evokes dignified melancholy at every turn. While its shadowy introspection and brief passages of electronica only distantly recall Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks and his other collaborations with David Lynch, his work here is utterly devoid of their often pop-ironic kitsch. Instead, writing in the powerful, modernist milieu of Herrmann and Howard Shore, Badalamenti's score turns repeatedly on a brief, mournful phrase for muted brass, a five-note motif that serves as the emotional anchor for one of the composer's most elegant exercises in orchestral understatement. -- Jerry McCulleyFrom Warner Independent, a new division of Warner Bros. Pictures, comes "A Very Long Engagement" - a love story set during World War I featuring the director and star of "Amelie," Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Audrey Tautou. With a box-office total of $152 million, "Amelie" is one of the most popular foreign language films of recent years. Director Jeunet's "Engagement" is the biggest budget French film in history, opening on 800 screens in its home country. Based on the acclaimed novel by Sebastien Japrisot, the story takes place at the close of the war, when Mathilde(Tautou) receives word that her fiancee is one of five wounded soldiers who have been court-martialed and forced into the no-man's-land between the French and German lines to die an almost certain death. Unwilling to accept that her lover is lost to her forever, Mathilde embarks on an investigation, strengthened by a steadfast hope. In her quest to discover his fate, she is drawn deeper into the horrors of war and the indelible marks it leaves on those whose lives it has touched. The orchestral score is by Angelo Badalamenti ("Twin Peaks," "Mulholland Drive," "The Company," "The Straight Story," "Lost Highway"), conducted by Phil Marshall.

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