Film Music Reporter

Music Box Records has announced a soundtrack album for the French drama Auction (Le tableau volé). The album features the film’s original music composed by Alexei Aigui  (I Am Not Your Negro, The Truth, The Young Karl Marx, Wild Field, Exterminate All the Brutes, Silver Dollar Road). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, April 26 (visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download). A CD version, which also includes Aigui’s scores from Je pense à vous, Le Grand Alibi and Cherchez Hortense, is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also check out audio samples. Auction is written and directed by Pascal Bonitzer and stars Alex Lutz, Léa Drucker, Nora Hamzawi, Arcadi Radeff, Louise Chevillotte, Laurence Côte and Matthieu Lucci. The movie follows a modern art appraiser who works for an auction house whose routine is unexpectedly disrupted by the discovery of a long-lost work by Egon Schiele. The drama will open in French theaters on May 1.