Originally posted by Caliban
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Inclined to agree with your last point there Caliban. Interstellar certainly was gripping, well acted and very appealing to the eye - and I'm not just talking about Anne Hathaway here I actually think that the music worked brilliantly to enhance the mood and feel of the piece. Indeed it was an integral part of the film I think - packing at times a huge punch. There's a particularly striking passage when McConnaughey is leaving the house and his daughter behind ( "Leaving Murph" linked below) and it is just an overwhelming and spine tingling moment as to my ears the score (almost) quotes from the finale of Mahler 10. This is even more apparent on the OST in a later track called Detach where the theme is repeated for reasons which will become apparent. What is the film about precisely? - Love, Loss and the passage of time? I'm not sure to be honest - but Interstellar and its music has stuck in the mind since I saw it about 5 weeks ago...
The other film that I'd like to mention and I 'd love JLW's take on it and others who've seen it is Under the Skin, which given my cheerleading for its director Jonathan Glazer on these boards, came as something of a disappointment. Passages of it were eerily beautiful - but the ending struck me as being incoherent and peremptory...
Best Wishes,
Tevot
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