release date: 1991
format: cd
[album rate: 4 / 5]
"Weronika"
Original Soundtrack album made for the brilliant movie "La double vie de Véronique" (1991) directed by Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieślowski. Preisner (aka Zbigniew Antoni Kowalsk) has worked with Kieślowski on several feature films including "Blind Chance", "Dekalog" (TV-series and feature film), and the trilogy "Trois couleurs: Bleu", "Trois couleurs: Blanc", "Trois couleurs: Rouge".
This is my favourite Kieślowski film and one of Preisner's best soundtracks (I know many consider the 1st of his Trois Couleurs' films the best but I think it's too cheesy with way too heavy symbolism, and Presiners' score seems too close to this earlier work, and it lacks complexity). Preisner is a modern classical composer mostly making music for films.
[ allmusic.com 4 / 5 stars ]
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