Nick Cave and Warren Ellis score “The Road”
posted on Wednesday, 16th of December 2009 at 2:50pm
It’s about time for another bleak and slightly disturbing cinematic epic in the vein of The Proposition and Jesse James… and this calls for none other than the Kings of Audio Menace: Nick Cave and Warren Ellis.
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The Road is the tale of a father and son’s survival and journey across a barren, post-apocalyptic (and sometimes cannibalistic and toothless) America. Think Thunderdome with fewer cars, colder winters, a better soundtrack, and no Tina Turner.
Nick Cave managed to capture humanity’s future despair in song: “The movie is about the loss of things, the absence of things, the lack of things,” he said. “The lack of the wife/mother is present in every frame of the film. The delicate edifice of the film holds the ache of her absence, tenderly and by the tips of the fingers. The music was composed as a direct response to the film. A light, haunting, simple score with a sense of absence and loss at its heart.” The Road is is the big screen adaption of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Cormac McCarthy (author of similarly bleak No Country For Old Men), and is the perfect desaturated and austere post-apocalyptic film for the Festive Season (jks). Check out the trailer below: |
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