B Original has released a soundtrack album for the French/Belgian historical comedy drama Justin the Just (Justin le juste). The album features the film’s original music composed, orchestrated and conducted by Renaud Barbier (The Last Diamond, Small Country, The Serpent). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list. Also listen to the composer’s first track after the jump. Justin the Just is written and directed by Eric Barbier and stars Alban Ivanov, Birane Ba and Alexandra Lamy. The movie follows an illiterate French peasant drafted into the army who teams up with a Senegalese soldier to rebel against their cruel superiors and spark a mutiny that turns him into an unexpected hero.
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‘Zodi & Tehu – Princess of the Desert’ Soundtrack Released
Virgin Records has released a soundtrack album for the French family adventure Zodi & Tehu – Princess of the Desert (Zodi et Téhu, frères du désert). The album features the film’s original music composed by singer/songwriter MIKA who has made his scoring debut on the project. Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack. Listen to the first track from the album after the jump. Zodi & Tehu – Princess of the Desert is directed by Eric Barbier and stars Alexandra Lamy, Yassir Drief, Youssef Hajdi and Nadia Benzakour. The movie tells the story of a Berber boy who bonds with a camel as they cross the Sahara desert on a journey to Abu Dhabi.
‘Small Country’ (‘Petit pays’) Soundtrack Released
A soundtrack album has been released for the French drama Small Country (Petit pays). The album features the film’s original music composed by Renaud Barbier (The Last Diamond, The Serpent). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon, where you can also check out the track list and listen to audio samples. Small Country is directed by Eric Barbier and stars Jean-Paul Rouve, Djibril Vancoppenolle, Isabelle Kabano and Delya De Médina. The movie is based on the novel of the same title by Gaël Faye and revolves around a group of boys aged between growing up in the Burundian capital, Bujumbura at the time of the Rwandan civil war.
‘The Last Diamond’ Soundtrack Details
Sony Music will release a soundtrack album for Eric Barbier’s French thriller The Last Diamond (Le dernier diamant). The album features the film’s original music composed by Renaud Barbier who previously scored the director’s 2006 feature The Serpent. The soundtrack will be released in France on April 28, 2014. The Last Diamond starring Yvan Attal & Berenice Bejo tells a love story inspired by the legendary lost Florentine Diamond – a 137 carats gem, first documented in Renaissance times, which went missing in 1918. The thriller will be released in France on April 30.