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Lovely music in the trailer
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Looks about 34 minutes of Rombi score, plus other composers' selections too.
I'm buying...and yes, much better than 11 minutes! 
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What a beautiful score this is (again). Why this man isn't getting Desplat-like assignments is beyond me. Either his manager is not looking properly or he's happy just working in France. Someone get him more jobs!
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Nov 11, 2014 - 10:51 AM
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I think that Philippe Rombi is by and far the finest French film composer in contemporary film music, and I'll even go further and say he may be the finest contemporary film composer in all of cinema the moment.
Why is he not getting Alexandre Desplat's assignments? Well, Rombi hasn't branched out of European cinema - he's only known by those who follow French cinema and European soundtracks, and his last few scores were exclusively for Francois Ozon.
Desplat started branching out a long time ago and had a major breakthrough with an American film, "Birth," which was one of the rare occasions in the past decade where the film critics, the cinephiles, the general audiences, and the film music crowd more or less unanimously praised an original score. It was an upward trajectory from there, as "Birth" led to Desplat getting more offers in America, then he started receiving Oscar nominations, then being sought out by David Fincher, Terrence Malick, Wes Anderson & being hired to score entries in big franchises & here we are.
A quick trip to IMDB reveals that Rombi has had no American assignments in his career, and very few films in English (and one of those is an Ozon film, "Swimming Pool," which is in both English and French). And most of his filmography consists of movies that didn't receive distribution in America (including a few Ozon films, which is surprising). It's also hard to find the soundtrack for "Swimming Pool," which is definitely Rombi's best-known film. Quite a lot of Rombi's music isn't easy to find, actually, as one has to hunt down numerous undistributed French films and rare French CDs in order to experience most of it.
Once Rombi branches out of French cinema, perhaps if some independent filmmaker in American wishes to have a more traditional score for their film, I believe he will receive some Hollywood assignments. He's far more traditional sounding than Desplat, though, so who knows how many young filmmakers would even want to work with Rombi over here.
And yes, back to the thread topic, the clips from "Une Nouvelle Amie" sound wonderful. I can't wait to hear the whole thing, and to see the film.
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