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ALEXANDRE DESPLAT: EN FRANÇAIS – PART ONE

February 11, 2020 Leave a comment

Over the past decade or so, Alexandre Desplat has cemented his status amongst the world’s most respected film composers with a series of scores for major studio films in the United States. He has been nominated for eleven Academy Awards – for The Queen (2006), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), The King’s Speech (2010), Argo (2012), Philomena (2013), The Imitation Game (2014), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), The Shape of Water (2017), Isle of Dogs (2018), and Little Women (2019) – winning twice. However, much of his early work in his native France remains relatively unknown to wider audiences – something this article intends to rectify!

In this first installment of Alexandre Desplat: En Français, we take a look at six of the first scores he wrote during the earliest part of his career in the early 1990s, beginning with his very first collaboration with one of his most frequent directors, Jacques Audiard. Read more…

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