“Music is a character in this film because a good portion of it is silent,” says director George Clooney about his movie “The Midnight Sky.” “Not just highlighting moments of sadness or terror, but also to carry the emotion all the way through.”
Composer Alexandre Desplat wrote more than 90 minutes of music for the sci-fi film, which stars Clooney as a scientist in the Arctic trying to contact a ship returning from Jupiter to convey the bad news: Radiation is enveloping Earth, and most of its inhabitants are dead or dying.
“It’s like a ballet or a concert on-screen,” notes Desplat. “The characters don’t talk much; the visuals are leading the story. Music conveys the emotions of all the characters: Augustine [Clooney], who is very ill; the little girl [Caoilinn Springall], who doesn’t speak; the crew in the spaceship.”
That girl, who turns up on the Arctic base...
Composer Alexandre Desplat wrote more than 90 minutes of music for the sci-fi film, which stars Clooney as a scientist in the Arctic trying to contact a ship returning from Jupiter to convey the bad news: Radiation is enveloping Earth, and most of its inhabitants are dead or dying.
“It’s like a ballet or a concert on-screen,” notes Desplat. “The characters don’t talk much; the visuals are leading the story. Music conveys the emotions of all the characters: Augustine [Clooney], who is very ill; the little girl [Caoilinn Springall], who doesn’t speak; the crew in the spaceship.”
That girl, who turns up on the Arctic base...
- 1/14/2021
- by Jon Burlingame
- Variety Film + TV
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