I know the organ score was composed by the lead actress's brother -- anybody know if there is a recording of it out there somewhere, not necessarily a "soundtrack" -- but has the score been recorded for its own sake?
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But it sounded very Ennio Morricone-ish to me
Why, do you want to torture Al-Queda members with it in your basement? Ai-yi-yi.
sharemy thoughts entirely, what a racket, it should have been sponsored by Nurofen!
shareI love the music and soundtrack. It seemed to me that the film lulls you into a semi-conscious state only to hammer you back wide awake. I really love the part when A and X are at the concert of two string players and we hear the bombastic organ soar instead of violins.
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The music pretty much ruined the movie for me, everything else is so mysterious, surreal and detached, but the music sounds like a bad over-the-top cheesy Boris Karloff horror movie, I kept expecting the camera to pan over and see the crazy chick from Carnival of Souls wailing away on the organ. I'm going to put on some ambient music and watch it again with just subtitles. Maybe someday Criterion will commission Michael Nyman to do a good score.
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Agreed. The organ music was a huge mistake.
shareDisagree. The organ music is incredible. It contributes greatly to the mood and atmosphere of the film (much like Hiroshima Mon Amour).
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The film felt like a funeral (only the visitors seemed to be the dead) I thought the music fit the mood perfectly as well.
The music was one of the last things to ruin this film, the lack of plot bothered me the most.
The film felt like a funeral (only the visitors seemed to be the dead)
The organ score to this is amazing and perfect. Also, the hollywood-esque orchestral moments that blur back into the organ are perfect, too, and add a great deal of humor--to me also representing a portion of the dream-like state where consciousness moves to a different plane before sinking back into a deeper state. I wouldn't change a thing about it. It is already a "good" score, though I would be really interested in hearing what Nyman would do with this film. I agree that it can be over the top; it fits the frame of mind that the images suggest.
The essay inside the DVD mentions that they tried to get Olivier Messiaen to write the music. THAT would have been really cool--but surely very similar to what's already there. Seeing the film I was instantly reminded of Messiaen's organ work.
I also wouldn't change one note of it, only turn the audio's volume down to 0.
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Whatever else people may think about this film, it has to be one of the worst and actually most annoying soundtracks of all time.
shareI can't argue with that. I saw it 3 or 4 years ago for the only time, and there are windy nights when my fiancé is working 7 p.m.-7 a.m. and for no reason that music suddenly comes back to me. It's terrifying to me, but we all have different tastes.
shareMy organ scores pretty well, thank you, but I don't think it is any of your business to be asking such a question online.
shareProbably too late for the OP, but there was a short record of the organ music put out at the time, and it's available for download on Amazon at least. It's only about 15 minutes long, but if the organ music from Marienbad floats your boat it's out there. (I think it was fine in the film but I wouldn't want to listen to it on its own.)
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