Music Box Records has announced a new soundtrack album featuring two newly remastered scores composed and conducted by Academy Award winner Georges Delerue (Platoon, Steel Magnolias, A Little Romance, Twins, The Day of the Dolphin, Beaches, Joe Versus the Volcano). The album includes the composer’s music from the 1983 French drama One Deadly Summer (L’été meurtrier) directed by Jean Becker, based on Sébastien Japrisot’s novel and starring Isabelle Adjani, Alain Souchon, Suzanne Flon & Maria Machado, as well as his score for 1991’s The White Queen (La reine blanche) written and directed by Jean-Loup Hubert and starring Catherine Deneuve, Jean Carmet, Bernard Giraudeau & Richard Bohringer. The CD, which is being released as part of the 100th anniversary celebration of Delerue’s birth and is limited to 750 copies, 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.
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‘The Green Shutters’ (‘Les volets verts’) Soundtrack EP Released
MovieScore Media has released a soundtrack EP for the French drama The Green Shutters (Les volets verts). The 4-track EP features the film’s original music composed by Frederic Vercheval (The Pact, Secret Name, The Sower, This Is Our Land). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here. Les volets verts is co-written and directed by Jean Becker and stars Gérard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant, Stéfi Celma and Benoît Poelvoorde. The movie is based on the book by Georges Simenon and centers on the twilight years of a sacred monster, Jules Maugin, an actor at the height of his glory.