Air
The Virgin Suicides - Soundtrack

THE REVIEW

What can you expect from one of Hollywood's most promising directors and one of the most innovative musical duos of the '90s?

Great things!
And indeed here is delivered in one go a film you wouldn't expect from the glossy and overdone American cinema and a soundtrack that refers to everything but the electro-pop atmospheres to which the Parisians Air have brilliantly accustomed us since their first albums.

Sofia Coppola crafts a film that is evocative for its setting (a meticulous reconstruction of the '70s) and dramatic (the tragic fate of the Lisbon sisters cannot fail to engage), entrusting the soundtrack to the French Godin and Dunckel who seem almost at ease weaving their compositions into the cinematic work.
Abandoning digital sounds, the duo relies on a rhythm section composed of bass and drums and vintage keyboards to reproduce a typically seventies sound that moves with absolute credibility between Pink Floyd-esque and prog reminiscences.

“Playground Love” and “High School Lover”, like all the others, align, for their psychedelic atmospheres, with what has been heard in timeless works like “The Dark Side Of The Moon”, shaping around the film a soundscape in perfect harmony with the settings and melancholic sequences.