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Nov 11, 2016 - 8:22 AM
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Thor
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Yeah, the film has been getting rave reviews -- including my colleagues. I'm very curious, especially because I like a lot of Larrain's work. I interviewed him last year, when he visited Oslo for the Films from the South festival, but that was before he did JACKIE (and the brilliant NERUDA, also from this year). As for the score, I was totally taken by Levi's score for UNDER THE SKIN, but only within the film. I didn't care for it on album. Curious to see how this compares to that. I'm suspecting something a little more tonal. I did NOT care for that track posted above, though -- has a little too much of the 'suspense' side of composers like Shore, Herrmann, Barry, Morricone Delerue etc. that I can't really stand. Two insistant chords repeating, slowly in and out. No.
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This is the review of the film I did last month: In 1963 shortly after the assassination of her husband (Caspar Phillipson), Jacqueline Kennedy (Natalie Portman) gives an interview to a reporter (Billy Crudup) for LIFE magazine reflecting on the death of her husband, his legacy, her legacy while we look at the period between the assassination and his funeral and her state of mind. Directed by Pablo Larrain, a Chilean director making his English language debut. It's difficult to assess this as cinema, as a film because it is so dominated by a single performance that defines the film and puts everything else in her shadow. The buzz on Portman's performance was very good but I was not prepared for the sheer brilliance of it. When playing real people who are known to the public, it can be a trap to do an imitation of the person rather than inhabiting them. Portman inhabits Jackie Kennedy. How accurate is the film? I don't know, I don't go to the movies for history lessons (and I hope no one else does either). It's clear that the film took artistic license. For example, one of the highlights of the film is a distraught Jackie listening to the cast album of Camelot while trying on different dresses and jewelry and wandering around an empty White House when obviously it would be filled with staffers and secret service during that period. Mica Levi's underscore is the best film score I've heard all year. With Peter Sarsgaard as Robert Kennedy, Greta Gerwig, John Hurt, Richard E. Grant, Max Casella, John Carroll Lynch and Beth Grant as Lyndon and Ladybird Johnson.
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I'm a huge fan of the Under the Skin score. I've listened to it about 80 times all the way through. If i put it on i tend to leave it on and get through it all. I have yet to see the film but from the clips i've seen i'd imagine it suits the imagery and tone. I like the Jackie samples i'm hearing. I can't picture how they'll work in the film but it'll be interesting to see. I'm definitely going to get this soundtrack. There's some off-kilter quality to her work in this and Under the skin that just appeals to me very much, though i couldn't tell you why it affects me so.
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Wanderer, is it just possible that you are very "off-kilter" and that's why Levi's music appeals to you? Gak! Everyone else was right! It is me!
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Much as I love tuneful, traditional film music, I also love truly unusual music like Mica Levi's score for Under the Skin. Takes me back to the glory years of the 60's and 70's when anything at all seemed possible in film music. I've always enjoyed the relatively-more comprehensible avant-gardism of this kind of film music compared to the even more abstracted avant-gardism generally - given that even the most outre music in film needs to communicate to be of service. Thanks for posting so much on this - Jackie had flown under my radar till now.
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"I was severely disappointed by the film. The portrayal was charicaturish and for a film called Jackie, one would think it's about her whole life and not just the remodeling of the White House and organizing a funeral. She was a lot more than that." Smaug, I haven't seen the film so I can't comment on your criticism of its tone, but I think your disappointment in its focus on one particular event is misplaced. In drama, the soul of the character is revealed in his actions and reactions to the crisis/conflict at hand. Hence, a portrait. Did you expect Helen Mirren's THE QUEEN to be a biography of Elizabeth's entire life and career?
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