Composition of the score for the drama directed by Oliver Hermanus life start with a very simple question: is it really necessary to write only sad music for a story about a man confronting his mortality?
For Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch, the answer was no.
“It may have taken me a while to go on the same kind of journey with Mr. Williams, to embrace the tenderness of the situation and try to find the balance between the fact that you are nearing the end of your life and there” is sad,” said the composer of the Sony Pictures Classics film at Deadline’s seasonal Sound & Screen Awards event. “But it’s also a celebration when you’ve lived your life worth living.”
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Based on the film Akira Kurosawa Ekiru, life Set in London in 1952, veteran civil servant Williams (Bill Nighy) has become a cog in the bureaucracy of Britain’s post-World War II reconstruction. As endless paperwork piles up on his desk, he discovers that he has a terminal illness. Influenced by a fiery colleague, he begins to search for meaning in his life before eluding it.
“It’s about finding that beauty,” Levienaise-Farrouch said of the film written by Kazuo Ishiguro. “But it should also bring hope.”
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The French composer and pianist has a colorful CV. After studying piano in France, she sought out “a different environment” in London by visiting a campus with “a bunch of film students”. She realized they needed music for their low budget films, so that’s how she started. Some work she did with an American director led to an unexpected referral to none other than Larry David who asked her to write his 2012 short film. Acknowledgments of Larry David.
Now her dream is to play golf Control your enthusiasm Star.
Come back on Monday for that life panel video.
Writer: Lynette Reis
Source: Deadline
