Plaza Mayor Company will release a soundtrack album for the Lebanese drama Broken Keys (Le Dernier Piano). The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award winner Gabriel Yared (The English Patient, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Cold Mountain, Judy, Betty Blue, 1408). The soundtrack will be released digitally on April 1, 2022 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. A CD version is available to order here. Broken Keys is written and directed by Jimmy Keyrouz and stars Tarek Yaacoub, Sara Abi Kanaan and Adel Karam. The movie tells the true story of a young pianist trying to leave his war-torn Middle-East neighborhood and aspiring to a career in Europe, who struggles to rebuild his piano after it was destroyed by a leader of the Islamic state.
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Gabriel Yared Scoring Edoardo Ponti’s ‘The Life Ahead’
Gabriel Yared (The English Patient, The Talented Mr. Ripley, 1408, Cold Mountain) has been hired to score the upcoming Italian drama The Life Ahead. The film is directed by Edoardo Ponti and stars Sophia Loren, Ibrahima Gueye, Renato Carpentieri and Massimiliano Rossi. The movie is set in seaside Italy and follows a Holocaust survivor with a daycare business who takes in 12-year-old Momo, a Senegalese Muslim street kid who robbed her. Ponti also co-wrote the screenplay with Ugo Chiti (Dogman) based on Romain Gary’s novel La vie devant soi. Nicola Serra & Carlo Degli Esposti (Piranhas, Leopardi) are producing the project.