Rachel Portman - Chocolat (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) '2001

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Album name	Chocolat (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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Date	2001
Genre	Soundtrack
Play time	41:22
Format / Bitrate	FLAC Stereo 666 Kbps / 44.1 kHz MP3 320 Kbps
Media	CD
Size	197.96 Mb
Price	$2.95

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	1. Swedish filmmaker Lasse Hallström's directorial style is marked by a taste for simplicity. He is an old-school storyteller, preferring to step out of the way and let the story speak for itself. The approach has its advantages, but the earnest limpidity of his vision can have a stultifying effect on his films. 's innocuously pretty score for Hallström's innocuously pretty 1999 screen adaptation of The Cider House Rules played by the director's rules, melding pleasantly and forgettably into the glossy period landscape. The score brought her an Oscar nomination, but lacked both the eclectic complexity and the vibrant playfulness of her best work. A year later, Hallström's adaptation of the Joanne Harris novel Chocolat was in many ways as charming and as vapid as Cider House. But Portman's score was a different story altogether. Throughout Chocolat, Portman's rich and airy melodies float sweetly across the screen, mischievously hinting at hidden meanings and darker themes. The music does not so much capture as create the whimsical and mysterious atmosphere of the film, blending breezy French orchestral allusions with otherworldly Andean flutes and rambling gypsy guitars in an effective sonic representation of the cultural clash between Juliette Binoche's South American mystic, Johnny Depp's Irish river rat, and the conservative French town that brings them together. Depp's fans will undoubtedly be delighted by his impressive fretwork on the Django Reinhardt and Duke Ellington gypsy guitar pieces that begin and end the soundtrack album. But Portman's is the film's most impressive performance. She proves to be the perfect composer to help Hallström project the tale's subversive feminine energies
	2. Tracklist:
	3. 1.01 - - Minor Swing
	4. 1.02 - - Main Title
	5. 1.03 - - The Story of Grandmere
	6. 1.04 - - Vianne Sets Up Shop
	7. 1.05 - - Three Women
	8. 1.06 - - Vianne Confronts the Comte
	9. 1.07 - - Other Possibilities
	10. 1.08 - - Guillaume's Confession
	11. 1.09 - - Passage of Time
	12. 1.10 - - Boycott Immorality
	13. 1.11 - - Party Preparations
	14. 1.12 - - Chocolate Sauce
	15. 1.13 - - Fire
	16. 1.14 - - Vianne Gazes at the River
	17. 1.15 - - Mayan Bowl Breaks
	18. 1.16 - - Taste of Chocolate
	19. Roux Returns
	20. 1.18 - - Caravan

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