'Birth's' Desplat adds elegiac note to eerie drama.

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  • Author(s): Mermelstein, David
  • Source:
    Daily Variety. 12/8/2004, Vol. 285 Issue 48, pA4-A10. 2p.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      DESPLAT, Alexandre, 1961-; MUSICAL composition; GIRL With a Pearl Earring (Film); BIRTH (Film); GLAZER, Jonathan; KIDMAN, Nicole, 1967-
    • Abstract:
      The article states that if music composer Alexandre Desplat's work on "Girl With a Pearl Earring" did not persuade cineastes of his music's quiet intensity, then his score for director Jonathan Glazer's "Birth" surely should. Desplat likens "Birth" to a fairy tale, with actress Nicole Kidman, as an Upper East Side widow who is confronted by the possibility that a 10-year-old boy is her dead husband reincarnated. The Christian Science Monitor described the movie as steeped in brooding atmosphere, thanks to its hugely imaginative visual style and creative use of music, sound and silence. Though only 43, the Parisian-born Desplat has already written music for 80 titles, 50 of them are feature films.