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In the Bed Room[Soundtrack] [Import]
Thomas Newman
発売日：2002年1月8日(火)
レーベル：Varese Sarabande
レビュー (Amazon)
This intense first feature by actor-turned-director Todd Field daringly ventures into an emotionally unsettling minefield of family and romantic relationships gone dangerously wrong. Field, hailed for his masterful touch with the difficult material, shrewdly chose Thomas Newman to score the film. Known almost as much for what's not in his frequently modernistic scores--i.e. traditional dramatic themes and overwrought orchestral sentimentality--Newman once again follows his experimental muse to great effect here. The work is considerably less percussive than similar compositions he's attempted, and he succeeds by a less-is-more strategy that's unafraid to let spare piano notes hang in the air like haunting spirits or concoct intriguing, inscrutable studio-enhanced sound washes conjured from acoustic and electronic sources. But that's not to say Newman's operating from formula: the understated strings of "Baseball" betray a masterful understanding of tradition, and three a cappella choral cues performed by the Newark Balkan Chorus impart yet another compelling layer of humanity to the score. The scion of Hollywood scoring legend Alfred Newman again shows his musical instincts are all his own as he continues to gratifyingly redefine the art of modern film scoring. --Jerry McCulley
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