Varese Sarabande has announced the details of the soundtrack album for the period drama Belle. The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award winner Rachel Portman (The Cider House Rules, Chocolat, Emma). The soundtrack will be released on May 13, 2014 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Belle is directed by Amma Asante and stars Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tom Wilkinson, Emily Watson, Sarah Gadon, Penelope Wilton, Miranda Richardson, Tom Felton, Sam Reid and Matthew Goode. The movie inspired by the true story of Dido Elizebeth Belle, the illegitimate mixed race daughter of a Royal Navy Admiral, premiered at last year’s Toronto Film Festival and will be released in the U.S. on May 2, 2014 by Fox Searchlight. To learn more about the film, visit the official movie website.
Here’s the album track list:
1. Main Titles (1:31)
2. Laughter Montage (1:12)
3. Are You Punishing Me? (1:57)
4. The Portrait Is Revealed (1:46)
5. Mirror (1:18)
6. Time Pass To 1781 (1:30)
7. A Father’s Goodbye (1:09)
8. John Leaves Lord Mansfield’s Tutorage (1:16)
9. Sitting For Portrait (1:25)
10. Dido Elizabeth Belle (1:50)
11. John Pulls Dido Aside (2:13)
12. The Zong (2:26)
13. Dido Goes To Tavern (2:06)
14. Maps (1:00)
15. She Was Beautiful (1:34)
16. James Manhandles Dido (2:08)
17. Dido Removes Her Ring (1:50)
18. You Already Loved Me (1:32)
19. The Docks (:43)
20. Lord Mansfield Watches John (3:45)
21. Dido Goes To Courts (1:30)
22. Let Justice Be Done (2:10)
23. You Would Be My Wife (2:19)
I love love love LOOOVE it, between Belle and Moulin Rouge as my 2 top favorites ever, I am in a quandary since each switches place as the best. or my all time most favoritist, but then to really mix me up is Avatar with its real Na’vi tribe person Neytiri with her hugeness and 3 fingered hands and the great love story subplot. Why is it The Hurt Locker won out over Avatar in 2009 as Best Picture, when clearly war movies today are run of the mill plots all being BOOM kill kill boom some more and nothing but depressing stuff touting the American war machine and its Imperialistic hegemonical diabolical rule the world by force mentality? Love and its stories should win out over explosions sometime, I mean, hell, you’ve seen the Green Zone, you’ve seen every terrorism war movie ever.
As it turns out Belle truly is a ‘chick’ flick, literally, almost, with Dido lead character, a woman in Gugu Mbatha-Raw, movie Director a woman, Amma Asante, movie Writer, a woman, Misan Sagay, and movie Music by, a woman, Rachel Portman. clearly without women doing what and as they do, the world woul;d collapse, and women continue on knowing they’re dumped on, ill treated, disrespected, etc. and here is in Belle what women can do if given opportunity to shine. So, it’s Avatar,no Belle, no Moulin Rouge, no, best is Avatar, and so on, I love all three, and deciding, well, gosh this is so hard, so I’ll just keep watching over and over and love it each time.