The Fountain
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Free Music Review: How do you make something beautiful even more beautiful?
Hit: 5 Stars
Darren Aronofsky's movies are beautiful masterpieces. From "Pi" to "The Fountain", going through "Requiem For a Dream", they will forever stand as timeless jewels. So they are hard to top in any way, but Clint Mansell has been able to do it every single time, scoring each of them.
For "The Fountain", he teamed up once more with Kronos Quartet and had Scottish post-rock band Mogwai join in too, to produce a score that fits the movie like a glove, in a very organic way. The central theme to the movie is instrumented in a way that works fantastically well across all the time periods the movie encompasses.
The combination of the talents of Mansell, the Quartet and Mogwai yields a relatively dark, yet breathtaking musical piece that will stand the test of time much like the movie it was meant to score.
Free Music Review: The most beautiful music ever...
Hit: 5 Stars
The premise behind the story is painfully simple: a man's struggle to save the woman he loves from dying. It is visually stunning, intellectually and emotionally challenging. First I didn`t know what to think and feel, watching it.We watched for the incredible visual effects, and the gorgeous music (Clint Mansell). Brilliant acting (difficult job), fantastic visual effects and awesome music. Just enjoy it. The film had its world premiere at the 63rd Venice International Film Festival on September 2, 2006.[60] Several critics booed The Fountain at the festival's press screening, while the film received a 10-minute standing ovation at the public screening the following evening. The music itself is a HUGE part of how it effects you, even when we are listening just the soundtrack, we can `feel` the movie. Gorgeous...Free Music Review: Already in love on third listen
Hit: 5 Stars
Relevant background info: The Requiem for a Dream soundtrack is one of my favorite albums ever. I enjoy strings and modernist classical, but mostly listen to electronica. I have yet to see the movie, and am looking at this album as a standalone piece.
Already after listening to this album 3 times through I am thoroughly in love with it. Once again Clint Mansell showcases the wonderful emotional power of the Kronos Quartet in a wonderful theme and reprise soundtrack format.
The first song, The Last Man, introduces the most powerful theme that come back to haunt you like Summer Overture does for Requiem for a Dream. I find the album more lonely and calm than Requiem, which I found more chilling.
The album is admittedly short at 46 minutes, but really cover the full ground that it needs to.
Free Music Review: inventive and thoughtful
Hit: 5 Stars
I agree with other reviewers who note that the soundtrack complements the film. If you have not seen the film, then this soundtrack might sound Phillip Glass-like, perhaps repetitive, because its motifs are few in number and simple in structure -- although the scoring is complex. But if you have seen the film, then this music becomes far more interesting, not least because it rather eerily evocates visions and ideas from the film that are visual rather than aural in nature. Whether this is due to the music itself, or due to the fact that the film itself is visually overwhelming, I don't know, but the effect is very cool. The upshot is that this a fascinating film and a fascinating and enjoyable soundtrack. Watch the film, then buy the soundtrack, and you will not be disappointed.Free Music Review: The Fountain is the Road to Awe
Hit: 5 Stars
Whether or not the film will be your cup of tea is a definite question. But there is no denying the haunting power of Clint Mansell's score. Perfectly fitting the images Darren Aronofsky worked six years for to bring to the screen, but also standing on it's own as a masterwork of unimaginable beauty. Often times it's themese are simple, and repetitive, but this is not a negative in this context. Honestly I think Aronofsky has outdone himself with this film, but Mansell most certainly has topped his score collaborations with the director's previous films Pi and Requiem for a Dream which were each brilliant in their own right. The composer teamed up with the Kronos Quartet and the rock band Mogwai to perform these tracks, and the collaboration is a very fruitful one.