Ils donn(ent) de la joie ou bien du chagrin Les rêves des amoureux sont comm’(e) le bon vin He also penned the lovely song featured today, performed by French songstress Camille.

Embracing the French setting, Giacchino composed a dizzying blend of violin, flute, piano and accordion and captured both the romantic majesty of Paris and the quicksilver scampering of a rat through the sewers and walls of the city. He has done some other film work since then, including Abram’s Star Trek and the latest Pixar film, Up.īut perhaps his finest work, rivaling even his score for The Incredibles, is found in Brad Bird’s Ratatouille. That whiz-bang James Bond-meets-Superman soundscape remains one of my favorite film scores. Giacchino’s first stab at a big screen score was his superb work on The Incredibles. He showed up again in Abram’s Lost, and brought the same tension and mystery to his score. His music never failed to heighten the tension, especially when he pulled out his signature move, the slow cacophony of violins accompanying some mind-bending twist at the end of an episode. I first discovered Giacchino through his fine work on J.J. This blog entry deals primarily with the sounds, and specifically the music of Michael Giacchino. Just looking at the large version of the image to the right when saving it for this entry, I was filled with the urge to pop the DVD in the machine and soak in the beautiful sights and sounds of this wonderful film. I have films on my top ten lists - like Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s A Very Long Engagement (2004), to pick one at random - that impressed me at the time but fail to move me at all as I think back on them.īut Ratatouille, one of Pixar’s finest achievements (which is saying a lot), never fails to stir me. I think the real measure of a movie’s effectiveness is how it makes you feel months or years later when you think about it.

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