By the time his waltz returns for a final reprise, the notes feel as though they’re being played by the mocking hand of fate—a smirking eulogy to a marriage that was as brief as it was remarkable. Alexandre Michel Gérard Desplat (French: [alɛksɑ̃dʁ dɛspla]; born 23 August 1961) is a French film composer. Both scores were the work of Alexandre Desplat, a 45-year-old Paris composer who also scored “Syriana” in 2005. Desplat’s score, which perfectly captures the fractious marriage at the heart of this story with a waltz that doubles for a battle plan, elicits a tremendous faith in the emotional timbre of the plot. The names of Toru Takemitsu, the Japanese classical composer; Bill Evans, the jazz pianist; Antonio Carlos Jobim, the bossa nova great; and John Adams, the American composer, are most frequently mentioned. His music for “The Queen” and “The Painted Veil” has raised his name as a potential Oscar nominee this season. Celebrating their longtime partnership he has conducted the The Grand Budapest Hotel, Godzilla, Marius, The Monuments Men, Venus in FurThe King's Speech, The Tree Of Life, The Well Digger's DaughterThe Ghost Writer, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, The King's Speech, The Special RelationshipFantastic Mr Fox, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, Julie & JuliaThe Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Coco Before Chanel'Best Score', 'Best Instrumental Composition' and 'Best Arrangement'Unbroken, The Imitation Game, Everything Will Be Fine, Tale of TalesHarry Potter and les reliques de la mort: 2e partieA Better Life, Carnage, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, The Ides of Marcha Better Life, Largo Winch II, The King's Speech, The Tree of Life, The Well-Digger's DaughterHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1 and 2A Better Life, Carnage, The King's Speech, Rust and BonesExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Moonrise Kingdom
He’s as much a son of Jobim as Herrmann, as much Mancini as Delerue.” Directors who have worked with Mr. Desplat invariably mention his music for the films of Jacques Audiard as one reason they chose him. Set in Hong Kong and Shanghai between 1938 and 1942, Desplat’s score isn’t just the highlight of this wonderful and criminally underseen melodrama, it’s also the film’s quicksilver soul. His original pieces for It happens exactly 10 seconds into the first song of Desplat’s score for Given only three weeks to sonically capture the brilliant but tormented mind of mathematician Alan Turing, Desplat knew that a big-orchestra approach was out of the question—if not just for time’s sake, it was also too outsized for a story reflecting the unique mind of a single man. It’s a witty movie.”The resulting music is unexpectedly buoyant, even mischievous, as Mr. Desplat charts the delicate relationship between Queen Elizabeth II (Helen Mirren) and Prime Minister Tony Blair (Michael Sheen) in the days after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.
Realizing that the visuals of the film would never be able to depict the process of Turing’s brain, Desplat decided to make that the focus of his music, paying homage to the godfather of computers by using machines to randomly layer multiple piano tracks over each other. By
“You can’t go too dark, too suspenseful, too funny or too sweet. He has already won Los Angeles Film Critics Association honors for best music, given jointly for “The Queen” and “The Painted Veil,” and a Golden Globe nomination for “The Painted Veil.”Mr. Try another? Over time he developed a career in France that included work in theater, television, commercials and nearly 70 feature films.His distinctive sounds may stem in part from the differences in filmmaking practices between Europe and the United States. More