Gorgeous score... I consider it the second cousin to The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Tracklist:
01 - The Wonder Of Life
02 - Crossroad
03 - River Flows
04 - N.D.E
05 - Vision
06 - Dandelions
07 - Alexandre C
08 - New Mexico
09 - Last Exit To Albuquerque
10 - White Sand
11 - Kind Of Red
12 - The Messenger
13 - Tell Me When
14 - Here & Now
15 - The Night Blooming Cereus
16 - Angel Reflections
17 - The Swan's Song
18 - Lost

And you will have to PM me... since I so much enjoy hearing from folks (especially when they mention my priddy eyes). ;-)

Eye, eye - I'd appreciate this if it's anything like Button - it's bound to be good. Many thanks in advance :)

I believe it was composed in the same year... so there is a BB feel... though BB remains my favorite and most beautiful effort by this composer.

Afterwards has some really marvelous cues such as Crossroad with its pizzicato saxophone, its VERY Benjamin Button River flows and unusually high energy (for Desplat) Vision- which will make your blood flow.

...Afterwards has some really marvelous cues such as Crossroad with its pizzicato saxophone...

Isn't pizzicato a technique used on string instruments?

Great score btw :)

Possibly... but any time an instrument does a repetitive and quick note I've always thought it falls into that term. Have to agree a saxophone isn't really 'plucked'.

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The double DVD that comes with The Curious Case of Benjamin Button has a marvelous sequence with Desplat explaining his technique for using LARGE orchestra and then small ensemble and then just the simple one note from a single instrument (much like Yared). I highly recommend this Criterion version of the film which offers insight to the film and the curious director's commentary... where he took an enigmatic joy in creating a film where 'everybody dies at the end'.