Film Music Reporter

Quartet Records has announced a soundtrack album for the Spanish/French/Chilean drama The Movie Teller (La contadora de películas). The album features the film’s original music composed and conducted by Fernando Velázquez (The Impossible,  A Monster Calls, The Orphanage, Hercules, Devil, Crimson Peak). The soundtrack will be released next week and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. A limited edition CD is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also check out the track list and listen to audio samples. The Movie Teller is directed by Lone Scherfig (An Education) and stars Bérénice Bejo, Antonio de la Torre, Daniel Brühl, Alondra Valenzuela and Sara Becker. The movie tells the story of a young woman uses her storytelling gifts to share the magic of the pictures she has seen in the cinema with the poor inhabitants of a desert mining community. The drama premiered at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival and just opened in Spanish theaters last week. No word yet on a domestic distribution deal.