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Wonderful, 5 Sep 2004
There are very few films that are made all the more powerful by the score. Gattaca and The Piano are two obvious choices of previous examples, and I'm paying a big compliment to James Newton Howard by mentioning his score for The Village in the same breath as those.This score added SO much depth to the film. I know the film got very mixed reviews but I for one thought it was superb, and this score was an essential ingredient. Listening to it as a standalone piece of work is occassionally difficult (some tracks are particularly eerie - 'The Bad Color' and 'Those We Do Not Speak Of' are down right unsettling), but most of the time a sheer delight. As with much of Michael Nyman's scores (Gattaca, The Piano etc), The Village score uses repetition of key themes in many of the tracks, although rather than being 'repetitive' helps join the individual pieces - a simple trick that isn't done very well in the majority of film scores. There are lots of exquisite compositions here - 'Noah Visits', 'The Gravel Road' and 'The Vote' are my personal favourites. If you love beautifully played strings then check this out (and if you enjoyed the film, you'd be surprised how much of that enjoyment can be relived hearing this).
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