Cannes: The (musical) fun fact of the day
Urban legends or legendary urbanities, here everything is good to know. Consideration of the day: which soundtrack marked the Cannes Film Festival forever?
We go to dinner for a fortnight before each screening of a film in the official selection, and that's been going on for 45 years! Since Gilles Jacob, then General Delegate of the Cannes Film Festival , heard in 1979 the soundtrack by Ennio Morricone of the film Les Moissons du Ciel (of which she signed the superb prologue). But it goes back much further still, since “Aquarium” was part of the Carnival of the Animals , an instrumental suite created in 1886 by Camille Saint-Saëns. The French composer was far from suspecting that his theme, with piano notes evoking bubbles and where each note of violin and flute is echoed by a glass harmonica with a crystalline sound evoking the sparkling of water, would inspire many filmmakers. Until Wes Anderson and Moonrise Kingdom in 2012.
