Film Music Reporter

Owen Pallett (Her, Dream Scenario, Life, The Box, Alice/Darling, Spaceship Earth, On the Count of Three) has composed the original score for the upcoming Canadian romantic comedy Young Werther. The film is written and directed by José Avelino Gilles Corbett Lourenço and stars Douglas Booth, Alison Pill, Iris Apatow, Jaouhar Ben Ayed, Amrit Kaur and Patrick J. Adams. The movie based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s 1770s novella The Sorrows of Young Werther is set in modern-day Toronto and follows charmingly irresponsible and enthusiastic young man who finds himself at the mercy of a woman whose commitment to her fiancé Albert turns his life upside down. Matt Code (See for You, Suze) is producing the Wildling Pictures production. Young Werther is premiering this month at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival.