Cam Sugar has released a soundtrack album for the Italian drama Five Seconds (Cinque secondi). The album features the film’s original music composed by Carlo Virzì (Human Capital, The Leisure Seeker Seeker, My Name Is Tanino, The First Beautiful Thing). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list. Also listen to the composer’s title track after the jump. Five Seconds is co-written and directed by Paolo Virzì and stars Valerio Mastandrea, Galatea Bellugi, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi and Ilaria Spada. The movie follows a 50-year old man living in a villa in an isolated Tuscany valley, when a group of young a group of young idealists take over the empty villa, hoping to restore its long-abandoned vineyards.
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Soundtrack Album for Paolo Virzi’s ‘Dry’ (‘Siccità’) Released
Edizioni Curci has released a soundtrack album for the Italian comedy drama Dry (Siccità). The album features the film’s original music composed by Franco Piersanti (Me and You, The Caiman, Terraferma, Ordinary Happiness). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list and listen to audio samples. Dry is co-written and directed by Paolo Virzì and stars Silvio Orlando, Valerio Mastandrea, Tommaso Ragno, Elena Lietti, Claudia Pandolfi, Monica Bellucci, Vinicio Marchioni, Diego Ribon, Emanuela Fanelli, Max Tortora, Gabriel Montesi and Sara Serraiocco. The movie is set in a semi-post-apocalyptic Rome that has suffered three years without rain and follows a group of characters as they trying to get by in the waterless city.
‘Notti Magiche’ Soundtrack Released
Lotus Production has released a soundtrack album for Paolo Virzi’s Italian comedy Notti Magiche. The album features the film’s original music composed by Carlo Virzi (The Leisure Seeker, Human Capital, The First Beautiful Thing, My Name Is Tanino). The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also check out the track list and listen to audio samples. Notti Magiche is co-written and directed by Paolo Virzi and stars Mauro Lamantia, Giovanni Toscano, Irene Vetere, Roberto Herlitzka, Marina Rocco, Paolo Sassanelli and Annalisa Arena. The movie explores the golden age of Italian cinema in Rome through the tale of three promising screenwriters who turn out to be the main suspects for the murder of a famous producer.
‘The Leisure Seeker’ Soundtrack Released
BMG Italy has released a soundtrack album for Paolo Virzi’s drama The Leisure Seeker. The album features the film’s original music composed by Carlo Virzi (Human Capital, The First Beautiful Thing, My Name Is Tanino). The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also listen to audio clips. The Leisure Seeker starring Helen Mirren, Donald Sutherland, Christian McKay, Janel Moloney, Dana Ivey and Dick Gregory follows a couple on a road trip as they travel from Boston to The Ernest Hemingway Home in Key West, recapturing their passion for life and their love for each other. The dramedy premiered at last year’s Venice Film Festival and will be released in select U.S. theaters on March 9 by Sony Pictures Classics (following an awards-qualifing release last month).
Carlo Virzi Scoring Paolo Virzi’s ‘The Leisure Seeker’
Carlo Virzi is reteaming with his brother Paolo Virzi on the upcoming drama The Leisure Seeker. The film marks the English language debut of the filmmaker whose previous movies include 2013’s Human Capital, 2010’s The First Beautiful Thing and last year’s Like Crazy and and stars Helen Mirren, Donald Sutherland, Kirsty Mitchell, Christian McKay and Robert Pralgo. The movie is inspired by the novel of the same name by Michael Zadoorian and follows a runaway couple going on a cross-country journey in their vintage camper as they flee the suffocating care of their doctors and grown children. Virzi also co-wrote the screenplay with Francesca Archibugi, Francesco Piccolo and Stephen Amidon.
‘Like Crazy’ (‘La pazza gioia’) Soundtrack Released
Lotus Production has released a soundtrack album for the Italian comedy drama Like Crazy (La pazza gioia). The album features the film’s original music composed by Carlo Virzi (Human Capital, The First Beautiful Thing, My Name is Tanino). The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. Like Crazy is directed by Paolo Virzi (Human Capital, Hardboiled Egg) and stars Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Micaela Ramazzotti, Valentina Carnelutti, Tommaso Ragno, Bob Messini, Sergio Albelli, Anna Galiena, Maria Borini and Marco Messeri. The movie follows two patients with psychiatric issues who meet at a community hospital and flee the hospital to embark on a road trip from Tuscany to Rome.