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ARTIST
MAGNE, MICHEL
TITLE
Un Singe En Hiver (A Monkey In Winter)
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
LE POP CLUB RECORDS
CATALOG #
PCR 051LP
PCR 051LP
GENRE
SOUNDTRACK
RELEASE DATE
10/29/2021
In the early sixties
Michel Magne
has already made a name for himself though pigeonholed as "rive gauche" owing to his experimental compositions ("Musiques Tachistes"), his collaborations with
Françoise Sagan
and his musical adaptations of
Jacques Prévert
,
Charles Péguy
and
Bernard Dimey
for the magnificently
Christ
-like
La Mort D'un Homme (Chemin De Croix)
(Barclay, 1961). Things suddenly change when composing the music for
Gigot
by
Gene Kelly
and with
Jackie Gleason
the king of "mood music" rediscovered today by people like
Joseph Lanza
and
Boyd Rice
. When nominated at the Oscars, as the doors of Hollywood open wide Michel Magne chooses to remain in Paris feeling no enthusiasm at the idea of becoming a Californian. From then on, wreathed in success as he is, a more popular cinema is making eyes at him. Starting with
Henri Verneuil
with
A Monkey in Winter
starring nothing less than the greatest name of the time in France,
Jean Gabin
and a "rising newcomer",
Jean-Paul Belmondo
. With dialogues by
Michel Audiard
from the book by
Antoine Blondin
. A "French quality" that would not be to the taste of the nouvelle vague aficionados. Rather, this "daddy's cinema" is nothing less than the reflection of a certain Gaulish spirit of rebellion, all the same fiercely individualistic and that, disabused of all ideologies, doesn't want to die for ideas as the song by
Georges Brassens
goes. The music of Michel Magne outlines the nostalgic wanders of
Albert Quentin
(Jean Gabin) who after an adventurous youth on the
Yang-Tse-Kiang
now lives a quiet life with
Suzanne
(Suzanne Flon) whom he met at the Bourboule and manages the Stella hotel at Tigreville (actually Villerville in the Normand Calvados) and takes care of
Gabriel Fouquet
(Jean-Paul Belmondo), a young adman whose heart was broken in Madrid. The genius of Magne is found in his evocations of Spain and China not as they were at the time but as the two main characters picture them with the help of not just a few drinks. Two dreamers treating themselves to a blessed interlude where "o tempora, o mores" they do not have to cope with anti- speciesism (apology of bullfighting, cultural appropriation concepts (stereotyped Spain and China) nor the Évin law (elevation of inebriation to a fine art status). Here is a jolly good record you will want to go back to every time the right-minded ones try to mess with your basic rights. Henri Verneuil's cult original soundtrack from the 1962 movie.
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