Antoine
Duhamel –
Pierrot
Le Fou / Week-End (Banes Originales Des Films De Jean-Luc Godard)
CD Album, France, 2001
Universal Music
There
are no such thing as a bad Jean-Luc Godard soundtrack. Antoine
Duhamel's haunting score for Godard's great Pierrot
Le Fou
is something to hear with and without the film. The orchestration
and melody gives me chills as I listen to it now. There is always a
sense of sadness in Godard's work, and that sadness is conveyed in
the various soundtracks by a series of composers and performers. But
Pierrot
Le Fou
conveys a sense of regret of not wasted moments, but the sadness
that's life itself. History turned sour and slowly realizing that
the world you are in is not one of your making or worst yet, you are
part of that world. Also the piece very much reminds me of Vivaldi's
Four
Seasons,
which I am not sure if it is an influence or not – but it carries
the weight of the world on its melancholy melody. Even the Jazz here
has dark overtures.
Week-End
doesn't
hint despair, it is despair. With some funny moments, but never the
less the score to this mid-'60s Godard is full of nervous tension,
and one can gather a traffic jam due to a fatal accident, as strings
hum over the desolute landscape of abandoned cars and people.
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