Milan Records has released a soundtrack album for Roger Michell’s romantic drama Le Week-End. The album features the film’s original music composed by Jeremy Sams who previously collaborated with the director on movies including Hyde Park on Hudson, Enduring Love and The Mother. Also included is Nick Drake’s song Pink Moon. The soundtrack is now available overseas and will be released in the U.S. on March 11, 2014. To pre-order the CD, visit Amazon. Le Week-End stars Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan as a young-married middle-class British couple who attempt to reinvigorate their marriage by visiting Paris for the first time since their honeymoon. Jeff Goldblum is co-starring in the movie scripted by Hanif Kureishi. The drama premiered at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival and will be released in U.S. theaters this spring by Music Box Films.
Here’s the album track list:
1. Pink Moon – Nick Drake (2:04)
2. Train Music (1:32)
3. Taxi Valse (1:57)
4. Restaurant Wander (2:23)
5. Graveyard (0:57)
6. Bank Girl (0:43)
7. Hotel Run (0:36)
8. Doing a Runner (2:31)
9. Petit dejeuner (2:33)
10. Nick in Corridor (0:48)
11. After Dinner (2:15)
12. Hotel Escape (0:43)
13. Waiting (0:56)
14. Madison (1:20)
15. End Credits (2:16)
16. Butterfly Waltz (Bonus Track) (2:53)
17. Samba (Bonus Track) (1:47)
18. Mother’s Entrance (Bonus Track) (3:09)
19. Finale (Bonus Track) (5:16)
They also played the incredible instrumental section from Drake’s song “Road” – a classic.
What was the music played on the jukebox in the last scene in the café?
I’m not sure, because I don’t have the movie in front of me to verify the same sound but after going to the soundtrack page on IMDB I brought up ‘ Vero Valse ‘ on Youtube and got this – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o42636leAhY which apparently is called ‘Minor Swing’
but I think Django Reinhardt’s version is closer – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt6ULcZxwRo, in any case it seems to be of the same sound and construction as in the movie and the era is the late 1930’s.