L’UOMO DEL LABIRINTO / INTO THE LABYRINTH (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)


L’UOMO DEL LABIRINTO / INTO THE LABYRINTH
(Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Director Donato Carrisi
Cast Dustin Hoffman, Toni Servillo…
Music Composed, Orchestrated & Conducted by Vito Lo Re
Orchestra: Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Label Plaza Mayor Company Ltd
Distribution Sergent Major Company Ltd – The Orchard



The film tells the sotry of Samanta (Valentina Belle) who’s abducted on the way to school by a giant rabbit. Fifteen years later, she’s in hospital, in shock but alive, with Doctor Green beside her trying to help her remember. Together, they negotiate Samantha’s memories of the labyrinth, an underground prison, apparently with no way out, in which someone forced the young woman to play games and solve riddles and puzzles, rewarding her successes and punishing her failures. Also eager to sole the mystery is Bruno Genko, a private investigator with a surprinsing talent. He doesn’t have much longer left to live and, as such, Samatha’s could be the last case Bruno work on...


Each soundtrack has it’s own concept and from that notion the music attempts to express the visual and aesthetic idea of the director. The more the director is a perfectionist, the more the work of the composer becomes extremely challenging and yet satisfying as well. Particularly in thrillers, there are several composers whose influence is undeniable: Bernard Hermann, Jerry Goldsmith, James Newton-Howard, Howard Shore and John Ottman, among others. This is the musical world I moved into while never forgetting a typical Italian cantabile that evokes strong themes able to inextricably link to the movie as only skin could do.

         I used several synthesizers together with the orchestra, particularly to draw out the mystery of the labyrinth. The labyrinth is cold, wet and frightening. Electronic sounds are perfect to express these features. But when we need to convey not a situation but a character, there is still nothing better than the dear, old orchestra. No sample can do the same job as 75 people breathing and playing together. Even if it could be technically more perfect, it will always miss the soul. And that's definitely the composer's job: touching the soul. Only the audience and time will reveal if we have been able to achieve this goal.
                                                                                Vito Lo Re





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