Does anyone know who composed the music from downhill on the french dvd

Thank you! This is why the internet is great!! (Going into why the internet is usually not so great would require a much, MUCH longer post...)

I just finished watching this film this minute, and I was blown away. For a while I felt a little guilty over the fact that I was enjoying the film better because of its evocative, modern score than I would have with the original music. But then I realized that I don't really give a *beep* about that kind of stuff. Whew! That was a close one...

Sure, normally I am a purist. I abhor colourization of films, and the first time I went to watch Dracula, I tried to do it with the Philip Glass score and had to stop 15 minutes in (not that it was THAT bad, it was just NOT right... at all.)

But with this score, I felt that it really brought me closer to feeling how audiences at the time would have felt. Beyond the music, though, what a film! The lighting, the risque plot, the way so much of the characters' emotions are expressed with so very little dialogue... Wow!

I think this just moved into second place position for my favourite British Hitchcock films. Right below 'The Lady Vanishes' and right above 'The 39 Steps'. And it's definitely up there with the best silent films I have ever seen.

Hard to believe it is the same director who would go on to direct 'The Farmer's Wife' the next year. That piece of *beep* was almost unwatchable!