Music Box Records has released a soundtrack album for the French comedy drama Hugo (Victor comme tout le monde). The album features the film’s original score composed by Alexei Aigui (I Am Not Your Negro, The Truth, The Young Karl Marx, Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5, Test, Wild Field, Exterminate All the Brutes). 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. The label is also releasing a CD version, which also includes Aigui’s music from Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5 & Maigret and the Dead Lover (visit the label’s official website for more information). Hugo is directed by Pascal Bonitzer, written by Sophie Fillières and stars Fabrice Luchini, Chiara Mastroianni, Marie Narbonne, Louise Orry Diquero, Suzanne de Baecque, Iris Bry, Sarah Touffic Othman Schmitt, Naidra Ayadi, Agnès Sourdillon, Yannick Choirat and David Ayala. The movie follows an actor as he is preparing a one-man show about French novelist and poet Victor Hugo, when he’s reconnected with his estranged daughter.
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‘Maigret and the Dead Lover’ Soundtrack Released
Music Box Records has released a soundtrack album for the French crime drama Maigret and the Dead Lover (Maigret et le Mort amoureux). The album features the film’s original music composed by Alexei Aigui (The Truth, I Am Not Your Negro, Wild Field, The Young Karl Marx, Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5, Test, Exterminate All the Brutes). 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. A CD version featuring Aigui’s score from Maigret and two other titles will be released in the coming weeks. Maigret and the Dead Lover is directed by Pascal Bonitzer and stars Denis Podalydès, Anne Alvaro, Manuel Guillot, Irène Jacob, Micha Lescot, Dominique Reymond, Olivier Rabourdin and Laurent Poitrenaux. The movie based on Georges Simenon’s novel Maigret et les vieillards follows Inspector Jules Maigret as he investigates the murder of a former ambassador.
‘Auction’ (‘Le Tableau Volé’) Soundtrack Album Announced
Music Box Records has announced a soundtrack album for the French drama Auction (Le tableau volé). The album features the film’s original music composed by Alexei Aigui (I Am Not Your Negro, The Truth, The Young Karl Marx, Wild Field, Exterminate All the Brutes, Silver Dollar Road). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, April 26 (visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download). A CD version, which also includes Aigui’s scores from Je pense à vous, Le Grand Alibi and Cherchez Hortense, is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also check out audio samples. Auction is written and directed by Pascal Bonitzer and stars Alex Lutz, Léa Drucker, Nora Hamzawi, Arcadi Radeff, Louise Chevillotte, Laurence Côte and Matthieu Lucci. The movie follows a modern art appraiser who works for an auction house whose routine is unexpectedly disrupted by the discovery of a long-lost work by Egon Schiele.
‘The Spellbound’ (‘Les envoûtés’) Soundtrack Released
22D Music has released a soundtrack album for the French drama The Spellbound (Les envoûtés). The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award nominee Bruno Coulais (Coraline, The Chorus, The Crimson Rivers, Winged Migration). The soundtrack is now available to stream and download on Amazon Music, where you can also check out the full track list and listen to audio samples. The Spellbound is co-written and directed by Pascal Bonitzer and stars Nicolas Maury, Anabel Lopez, Iliana Lolic and Josiane Balasko. The movie follows a contributor to a women’s magazine who is sent deep into the Pyrenees to interview an artist who claims his mother appeared to him at the precise moment she died.