Various Artists – Marie Antoinette OST
Many, of us got excited at the first trailers of Marie Antoinette, it featured ‘New Orders’ Ceremony’ which, lets be honest one of the finest tunes out there. Naturally, this got my attention. A little digging found that the music in this film was going to be quite odd. The film is based in the 1700s and to have “New Order, Gang of Four, Bow Wow Wow, just to name a few on it is strange.
For this review, I will try and keep the film spoilers down to a minimum for those who have yet to see this picture. But the soundtrack is spread out over two discs and it mixes in 80s post punk stuff, The Strokes and some period pieces you would find during that time. Points really need to be given to the creative team behind the film. So would see this movie included modern music on a period piece foolish. But the songs fit in so well with the story and the vision that they were going for that it worked so well. This collection also got us to fall in love with New Order and Gang of Four all over again.
As soon, as I left the theater I went out and got a copy of this work. Its a mammoth set, Aphex Twin, Air, Radio Dept, all provide songs for the movie. Its a stylist collection, that is worth your time. A line from Gang of Four sums this all up pretty well “the problem with leisure is what to do for pleasure.”
By John Siwicki
