Elmer Bernstein - Far from Heaven (Score)
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Artist: Elmer BernsteinEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2002-11-05
Music Label: Varese Sarabande
Soundtracks:
- Autumn in Connecticut
- Mother Love
- Evening Rest
- Walking Through Town
- Prowl
- Psych
- The F Word
- Party
- Hit
- Crying
- Turning Point
- Cathy and Raymond Dance
- Disapproval
- Walk Away
- Miami Arranged by Patrick Russ
- Back To Basics
- Stones
- Revelation and Decision
- Remembrance
- More Pain
- Transition
- Beginnings
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Hit: 5 Stars
Like Douglas Sirk ("All That Heaven Allows"), whose lush Technicolor weepies served as inspiration, director Todd Haynes ("Poison," "Safe") doesn't define melodrama as "overdone" or "overblown," but according to its strict Latin components: as a union between music ("melos") and drama. Accordingly, he hired one of Hollywood's most respected composers, Elmer Bernstein ("The Sweet Smell of Success," "The Man With the Golden Arm"), to provide the all-important soundtrack for "Far From Heaven."
In the film, fashionable homemaker Cathy Whitaker is played by a blonde Julianne Moore. Dennis Quaid, in his "comeback" role, plays her ad exec husband, Frank, while Dennis Haysbert (the president on TV's "24") is Raymond, the sympathetic black gardener Cathy turns to when her picture-perfect life starts to come undone.
The score begins and ends with a similar cue; both "Autumn in Connecticut," where the film is set, and "Beginnings" rely on piano for most of their emotional impact. The distinctive--but never overbearing--cue is repeated throughout, with other instruments, like violin, coming to the fore. There are a few playful detours along the way. "Cathy and Raymond Dance," for instance, appears to be a riff on "As Time Goes By," while "Miami" has a light samba feel.
Like the film, Bernstein's score doesn't parody 1950s melodramas, but evokes the genuine article, and "Far From Heaven" ranks among his best work.
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