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Under-the-Radar Round Up 2013, Part 2
Original Reviews by Jonathan Broxton
I’m pleased to present the second installment in my on-going series of articles looking at the best under-the-radar scores from around the world.
This article, the second of 2013, explores five outstanding scores from recent months, including a provocative French drama about a teenage girl exploring her sexuality through a secret life as a prostitute, a psychological drama about a French psychoanalyst treating a traumatized Native American veteran in the aftermath of World War II, an animated family film about a six-year-old boy who invents elaborate stories about his absent mother’s adventures around the world, a satirical political comedy about the chaotic inner workings of the French Foreign Ministry, and an international television thriller about an ornithologist whose attempt to follow the migration of storks from Europe to Africa draws him into a deadly conspiracy.
MA MAMAN EST EN AMÉRIQUE, ELLE A RENCONTRÉ BUFFALO BILL/MY MUMMY IS IN AMERICA AND SHE MET BUFFALO BILL – Fabrice Aboulker
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton
Ma Maman Est En Amérique, Elle a Rencontré Buffalo Bill is an animated French film directed by Marc Boreal and Thibaud Catel, based on the graphic novel of the same name by Jean Regnaud and Émile Bravo. It tells the story of Jean, a six year old boy starting a new school. Having grown up without a mother, and not knowing who or where she is, he begins to make up tall tales about her and her adventurous life in order to impress his new school friends – even going so far as to create fake postcards and letters from her from Africa and the United States. However, his neighbor Michele, knows the truth about Jean’s real life, and the young friends bond over their unusual, imaginary family. The score for Ma Maman Est En Amérique, Elle a Rencontré Buffalo Bill is by the French composer and songwriter Fabrice Aboulker, and is yet another unexpected delight. Light, playful, thematic, and with some lovely passages for piano, strings and woodwinds, the score belies its children’s cartoon roots almost entirely by containing surprisingly sophisticated writing, all performed superbly by the Macedonian Radio Symphonic Orchestra, recorded in Skopje. Read more…
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