Grandes Gueules, Les (1965)

Composer(s):
François de Roubaix

Released in:
1965

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Once upon a time there was ...
by Dorian (November 15, 2004)
... a young composer François de Roubaix. Director Robert Enrico was a friend of de Roubaix's family, and because of François' interest in music, he let him compose scores for some short movies, before entrusting him to write the music for a full-length feature Les Grandes Gueules in 1965.
Being his first score for a full-length movie, François de Roubaix truly did define his unique style there. As a self-taught musician, guitar player and composer, he used mainly guitar riffs, accordion and lots of percussions in the score. The main theme greatly captures the mood de Roubaix was showing in most of his scores: theme of friendship and deep humanity. Also the sense for variations allowed him to maintain this atmosphere throughout the soundtrack, no matter if we are listening to an accordion waltz ("Jackie") or fast acoustic-guitars-and-percussion-driven tracks.
The soundtrack was originally released on EP in 1965, and this content was then fully re-released on LP in 1982. Not until in 2003, the version closest to complete came out, increasing the length of some of the tracks and also adding one previously unreleased cue, "Christiane et Jackie". Although the complete score is still only twelve minutes long, it is a masterpiece nobody should miss. It is great to hear how sounded the earliest movie soundtrack by François de Roubaix, a composer with truly unique style.

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