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| 1. Message And Main Theme |
| 2. Rosaleen's First Dream |
| 3. Story Of Bride And Groom Village Wedding/Return Of Groom |
| 4. Forest And Huntsman's Theme |
| 5. Wedding Party |
| 6. Boy And The Devil |
| 7. One Sunday Afternoon |
| 8. All The Better To Eat You With Medley Arriving At Granny's Cottage/The Promise And Transformation |
| 9. Wolfgirl |
| 10. Liberation |
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
If your're reading my comments, then you are probably in two minds as to whether to buy this soundtack. My advice to you; if you enjoyed the film's dreamy, dark and surreal like visuals and want to re-live this, then do!
This scoring is an engaging accompliment to it's marvelous under-rated film. As with the film, tracks follow a progression through the stories developments, this gives you the sense of a journey through the dangers untold and hardships unnumbered that Rosealeen encounters. The journey begins with the message theme and overall film's moral; spoken words of poetry, which smoothly develop into the music that tell the story.
There is a sense of awe and enchanted wonder encaptured in it's fairy tale sound, swooping with cascading violins and dark mysterious undercurrents that bubble below the surface, which infact mirrors the world on screen. This helps your mind-space to become completely overtaken by it's atmosphere and indeed transports you to another place.
Inside the cd booklet, which comes with many images from the film, composer George Fenton discusses his choice of musical sounds and styles that accompany each character and the film istelf. I think this will help you decide to buy this cd and support the talents that created it:
"The film largely takes place in a dream world so I made this the home base for the orchestra. To a large extent the scoring in this area is conventional, perhaps a little impressionistic and hopefully reflects a curious but endearing world. This left me free to invent sounds for the stories within the dream world. I wanted to use a mixture of electronics and 'live' instruments."
The film's score flows effortlessly between it's light and dark moments, including welcome sounds of surreal suprise. Most importantly for me, moments of beauty are not lost to the sense of suspense and drama that so makes this collection of tracks worth while, and couldn't work without.
Indeed light always needs it's companion of shaddow, as the film suggests in the sexual awakening of the pure untainted innocence that is Rosaleen. This score perfectly demonstrates the beauty of the juxtaposition between the sounds of youth and the temptaion of desire. I can't reccommend this enough, if it is for this reason you are inticed by the possibilty of owning the soundtrack.
This scoring is an engaging accompliment to it's marvelous under-rated film. As with the film, tracks follow a progression through the stories developments, this gives you the sense of a journey through the dangers untold and hardships unnumbered that Rosealeen encounters. The journey begins with the message theme and overall film's moral; spoken words of poetry, which smoothly develop into the music that tell the story.
There is a sense of awe and enchanted wonder encaptured in it's fairy tale sound, swooping with cascading violins and dark mysterious undercurrents that bubble below the surface, which infact mirrors the world on screen. This helps your mind-space to become completely overtaken by it's atmosphere and indeed transports you to another place.
Inside the cd booklet, which comes with many images from the film, composer George Fenton discusses his choice of musical sounds and styles that accompany each character and the film istelf. I think this will help you decide to buy this cd and support the talents that created it:
"The film largely takes place in a dream world so I made this the home base for the orchestra. To a large extent the scoring in this area is conventional, perhaps a little impressionistic and hopefully reflects a curious but endearing world. This left me free to invent sounds for the stories within the dream world. I wanted to use a mixture of electronics and 'live' instruments."
The film's score flows effortlessly between it's light and dark moments, including welcome sounds of surreal suprise. Most importantly for me, moments of beauty are not lost to the sense of suspense and drama that so makes this collection of tracks worth while, and couldn't work without.
Indeed light always needs it's companion of shaddow, as the film suggests in the sexual awakening of the pure untainted innocence that is Rosaleen. This score perfectly demonstrates the beauty of the juxtaposition between the sounds of youth and the temptaion of desire. I can't reccommend this enough, if it is for this reason you are inticed by the possibilty of owning the soundtrack.
Format:Audio CD
The beginnig of "Rosalin's First Dream" is one of the most haunting themes I've every encountered. Evocative and lavish, though ocasionally as a soundtrack it does tip OTT, it's still gorgeous enough to deserve five stars.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Beautifully haunting music
24 May 2001
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
This is an excellent cd for an excellent film. I only have one complaint....we can't get this on video or DVD. The music for this film was an excellent conterpoint to the haunting dark fairy-tale aspect of the film. IF you haven't read Angela Carter or seen this film I would. Mr Fenton is a beautiful composer and it is no surprise that this and his other work (Ever After) are two of my favorites. They even put the naration from the the end of the film(or is it the begining?) on the first track.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
engrossing, imaginative horror fantasy
22 Jan 2010
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Combining the elements of "Little Red Riding Hood" with those of the werewolf genre, this is a wonderful little horror thriller. The quiet background narrative by Sarah Patterson, along with a masterfully ominous soundtrack by George Fenton, help make for a cult classic. A visual and auditory treat, not for those of shallow feeling, or of limited imagination.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Atmospheric and dreamy soundtrack
16 Feb 2002
Format:Audio CD
Lush warm strings, beautiful melodies and harmonies. It worked brilliantly in the film, and makes great listening by itself. It's music of contrasts - dark and light, frightening and reassuring. If you ignore the pointless spoken piece (which only made slightly more sense within the film) it's fantastic. One of my all time favourites.
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