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RELATIVE VALUES – John Debney
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton
Light jazz is a musical genre John Debney has never explored before – and the surprising thing is that he’s very, very good at it. With gossamer-like orchestral touches, a continually perky beat and a hefty dose of good humour, Debney’s score for the new British comedy Relative Values is a delightfully unexpected change of pace from the man behind the marauding Cutthroat Island and the apocalyptic End of Days.
Relative Values is a comedy of errors and manners based on the classic Noël Coward play and directed by Eric Styles (Dreaming of Joseph Lees). Featuring a wonderful ensemble cast that includes Julie Andrews, William Baldwin, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Colin Firth and Stephen Fry, Relative Values is set in Kent during the 1950s, at a time when the well-bred aristocracy were finally realising that the social class system they had so rigorously maintained was coming to an end. One such upper-crust establishment, Marshwood Hall, is thrown into disarray when lord of the manor Nigel Marshwood (Edward Atterton) returns home from America with a new fiancee in tow – movie star Miranda Frayle (Tripplehorn), much to the dismay of Nigel’s mother, the lady of the house, Felicity (Andrews). Things get even worse when it transpires that Miranda is, in fact, the long lost sister of Marshwood’s head maid Moxie (Sophie Thompson) – a problem confounded by the subsequent arrival of Miranda’s former beau, matinee idol Don Lucas (Baldwin). Read more…
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