In a distinct break from their muscular triumph Gladiator, Russell Crowe and Ridley Scott teamed up again to bring Peter Mayle's sunny Provençal romance to the screen, a change of milieu that's spawned an equally warm... more », often sentimentally tinged soundtrack and score. Using a trio of pop songs by the great Harry Nilsson (including the joyous demo of Nilsson Schmilsson's "Gotta Get Up") as an axis that's as effusive as it is unlikely, this is a collection that romps through Franco-pop nuggets variously contemporary (Makali's elegant "Il Faut du Temps..."), vintage (Charles Trenet's "Je Chante," Jean Sablon's "J'Attendrai," Tino Rossi's "Le Chant du Guardian"), and downright loopy (Richard Anthony's French redux of "Yellow Polka-Dot Bikini"), making room for Patti Page, Josephine Baker, and Delaney & Bonnie along its merry way. Also included are three cues from newcomer Marc Streitenfeld's underscore, a nimble exercise in instrumental post-modernism whose electronica/folk/neoclassical mélange is as eclectic as the song choices, yet characterized by subtlety and grace. --Jerry McCulley« less
All Artists:Various Artists Title:A Good Year Members Wishing: 0 Total Copies: 0 Label:Legacy Original Release Date: 1/1/2006 Re-Release Date: 11/7/2006 Album Type: Soundtrack Genres:Pop, Soundtracks Style: Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC:886970306522
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In a distinct break from their muscular triumph Gladiator, Russell Crowe and Ridley Scott teamed up again to bring Peter Mayle's sunny Provençal romance to the screen, a change of milieu that's spawned an equally warm, often sentimentally tinged soundtrack and score. Using a trio of pop songs by the great Harry Nilsson (including the joyous demo of Nilsson Schmilsson's "Gotta Get Up") as an axis that's as effusive as it is unlikely, this is a collection that romps through Franco-pop nuggets variously contemporary (Makali's elegant "Il Faut du Temps..."), vintage (Charles Trenet's "Je Chante," Jean Sablon's "J'Attendrai," Tino Rossi's "Le Chant du Guardian"), and downright loopy (Richard Anthony's French redux of "Yellow Polka-Dot Bikini"), making room for Patti Page, Josephine Baker, and Delaney & Bonnie along its merry way. Also included are three cues from newcomer Marc Streitenfeld's underscore, a nimble exercise in instrumental post-modernism whose electronica/folk/neoclassical mélange is as eclectic as the song choices, yet characterized by subtlety and grace. --Jerry McCulley
Good...but next time if you use a song put it on the soundtr
J. Tavernier | San Diego, Ca United States | 11/28/2006
(3 out of 5 stars)
"Good music was set to this movie but the soundtrack is lacking a large number of songs you will have enjoyed in the movie. Here is a running list of the songs not on the soundtrack but in the movie.
40ft. -Franz Ferdinand
Hey Joe-Johnny Hallyday
Chances-Athlete
Room With a View-Noel Coward
Walk Right Back-Everly Brothers
Quand on s'promene au bord de l'eau-Jean Gabin
Les ex-Camille
Vous qui passez sans me voir-Jean Sablon
Lounge Lizard-Joe Lervold
Paris-Stephen Lang
Sur Les Chemins-Makali
Le linge seche au vent-Makali
Boum-Adrien Chevalier/Charles Trenet
La puissance-Jonathan Rotem
La fleur que tu...-Georges Bizet
Moi..Lolita-Alizee
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Loved the Movie but don't know about soundtrack
Barbara Monte | Houston | 06/15/2007
(3 out of 5 stars)
"Would have liked the soundtrack more if more songs from movie were on it."
A Good Year Soundtrack missing lots of favorites
MG | New Jersey | 03/18/2008
(3 out of 5 stars)
"Ordered the soundtrack and immediately sent it back because many of the really good songs from the movie were omitted. I'll just have to watch the DVD a lot to enjoy that music, especially when Russell Crowe and Marilyn Cotillard are sitting at the outside cafe watching the movie and listening to the song being sung. I believe the song is called Boum...not on the soundtrack. I would rather have had that than Patti Paige."
A good little bit of cinema
ANZAC | Billings, MT USA | 04/04/2007
(4 out of 5 stars)
"I read this book years ago and it has stuck with me, so I was excited to see the preview for this film. I had to wait until it came out on video because my town's theatres cater to the teenage mainstream (slasher gore, remakes of slasher gore, CGI, hollywood (deliberately NOT capitalized!)formula films, etc.)
To be honest, the first time through the film did not dazzle but, as with most of Ridley Scott's stuff, you simply have to watch it more than once to really SEE it and get to know the character's stories. In this case love stories - Max's love of money and power; DuFlout's love of the land; a town's love of their way of life; a nephew's love for his uncle; a young woman's love for a man she never met; a man's love for a woman and a place.
The scenery is spectacular, the supporting cast is by turn funny, sincere and slimy, and I think Russell Crowe's charater may start off a bit of a phony and that's how he's playing him.
My husband, who is normally, "If this has 'feelings' I'm not watching" really liked the story. Yes, it's a bit predictable, and sometimes that's just what I want. In a world that's so short attention span, Wow I've never seen that before, Gee, that looks almost real- it's nice to find a sweet little love story that shows a place and people we wish we really knew and works out the way we all wish life could.
(I got the soundtrack too.)
A Good Year"
GLARING OMISSION
Anne I. Spooner | USA | 01/25/2008
(3 out of 5 stars)
"There Are Some Nice tunes on here , but leaving off a show stopper like BOUM was a CRIME!!
There are at least three cuts on this soundtrack that could of easily been cut out to make room for more relevant and much better songs. What were they thinking ? Me thinks what songs someone had a piece of."