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Friday Music Cue: Sentimental Walk

Vladimir Cosma's score for "Diva" hits a high note with this tentatively romantic interlude, as does the film. On a rainy cold day in New York somehow the rain in Paris looks-and sounds-more desirable. The clip is a bit dark, but you get the drift.

Sofiaphobia

Marie Antionette won’t be Sofia Coppola’s first visit to cinematic princessdom. The wretched Francis Ford Coppola section of the New York Stories omnibus(well worth re-viewing, as Scorses’s meditation on artistic ferment and self-indulgence is sheer perfection) was a collaboration with the young Sofia. The story of the daughter of fabulous parents and her baroque, sickeningly ostentatious misadventures were the clear product an imagination nurtured by a family that considers themselves royalty in a way that’s both Italian and Cinematic. The scene of her avatar throwing chocolates covered in gold foil to a homeless man living in a box in Columbus Circle was simply shocking. Don't tell ME to eat cake, little girl.

 

But all Sofiaphobia aside, the 2-disc soundtrack to Marie Antoinette is outrageously good. Disc One is possibly the choicest Deep New Wave mix ever assembled, and Disc Two is more ambient, piano driven stuff both period and contemporary. Along with music supervisor Brian Reitzell (whose Thumbsucker OST included the lacerating Elliot Smith cover of Cat Steven’s ‘Trouble’)she’s crafted a narcotic sonic tapestry that's both fashionable and personal. The kind of anachronistic juxtapositions of period that are used to odd effect in the film (high tops with ball gowns) are put to sublime use in a mixtape that conjures a fabulous film thay may have nothing to do with the one Coppola made. The sequencing is inspired, drawing goosebump-raisingly apt connections between the ebullience of Adam and The Ants’ Kings Of The Wild Frontier and Vivaldi’s Concerto in G.