Things We Lost In the Fire (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Gustavo Santaolalla & Johan Soderqvist
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Album Review
Gustavo Santaolalla and Johan Soderqvist's score for director Susanne Bier's film Things We Lost in the Fire is an appropriate accompaniment to the low-key drama. The Danish Bier, an adherent of the European "Dogma" brand of filmmaking — naturalistic acting, natural lighting, handheld camera, etc. — brought much of this approach to an American "Hollywood" film with big movie stars (Halle Berry, Benicio Del Toro, David Duchovny) in telling her story about a recently widowed woman and her platonic but nevertheless involved relationship with a drug addict who was a friend of her husband. Santaolalla and Sodverqvist provide a large number of short cues (30 in 37 minutes on the soundtrack album) dominated by delicately played acoustic guitars, with occasional orchestral or electronic backgrounds. It's a quiet, careful, somber style in keeping with the subject and style of the film.
Recent Customer Reviews
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by Mr. 41Perfect soundtrack for the movie. It lined up beautifully. By itself, maybe not the best because it all kinda sounds the same, but i saw the movie, so i am reminded of a certain part with each new song. Emotional.
An Excellent (if short) score.
by filmmaker 1It is obvious that some people expect a certain style from all motion picture score, anything deviating from that must not be good. Santaolalla's music does not have a Spanish improved guitar feel to it.
First, it does not sound Spanish, it has a decidedly South American flavor (Not surprising since Santaolalla is Argentine) (expand your horizons, people).
Second, the style and understated qualities of the music are a perfect fit to the mood and flow of the movie (which of course is the main point - if a score does not suit the movie, then it is a failure as a motion picture score).
I have found three types of soundtrack scores. 1) Those that are perfect for the movie, but would not be great listening on their own, 2) those that do not work well with a movie (which can be distracting), but the music itself is still beautiful and worth owning in your music library, and then their is 3) when the beautiful beautiful music is a perfect fit to the movie's soundtrack. This music belongs in that third category.
If this kind of music is not your cup of tea, then why bother reviewing it. But don't pan something, and give it only one star, simply because you don't understand the music. I complete dislike heavy metal music, so why would I bother writing a review for Metallica. You review the type of music you enjoy listening to, and judge it based on comparable music.
nice music
by il_dtrmnatrWhile the music itself is nice, why would anyone pay $.99 for 30 seconds of music??? An outrageous price. If you're going to buy an album of short songs, at least go for Santaolalla's BABEL. The soundtrack is amazing and there's actual singing!
Biography
Born: 1952 in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Genre: Latino
Years Active: '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s
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- $9.99
- Genres: Soundtrack, Music, Original Score
- Released: Oct 16, 2007
- ℗ 2007 Lakeshore Records
