{"id":7489,"date":"2007-03-13T13:31:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-13T08:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=499"},"modified":"2019-05-13T10:10:41","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T04:40:41","slug":"chandrahas-choudhury-on-goodbye-lenin-soundtrack-by-yann-tiersen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/chandrahas-choudhury-on-goodbye-lenin-soundtrack-by-yann-tiersen\/","title":{"rendered":"A high point of film music"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Title: <\/strong>Good Bye Lenin! (original soundtrack)<\/p>\n

By:<\/strong> Yann Tiersen<\/p>\n

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Almost all feature films make use of a background score to direct, or even nakedly manipulate, the viewer’s emotions. In fact, the easiest way to invest a scene with drama is to throw a drum-and-synthesiser behind it. But Yann Tiersen’s piano-based score<\/a> for Wolfgang Becker’s comedy Good Bye Lenin<\/i> (2003) seems, to my ear, a high point of film music.\n<\/p>\n

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The plot of Becker’s movie is that of a zany comedy. A woman in communist East Germany in the 1980s falls into a coma; as she lies in hospital, the Berlin Wall falls, and a united Germany says goodbye to communism. When she recovers the doctors emphasise to her children the necessity of avoiding any unpleasant shocks. But the woman was a diehard party worker, and so her teenaged son, through whose eyes the film is told, tries his best to manufacture around her the old communist universe, with its state-made products, sententious television programming, and chronic shortages.<\/p>\n

Tiersen’s gentle, ruminative score, full of bittersweet cascading notes, turns a good film into a great one, managing, from this story of a quest to resuscitate a disappearing world, to evoke the universal human nostalgia for things past – our search, to use Proust’s phrase, for lost time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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