Word: auric
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rouleau, however, does far better as a director. In a series of remarkably effective close-up shots he manages to dramatically convey the tension, uncertainty, and fear of the people of Salem. Except for an overly chaotic courtroom scene, the picture is smoothly and intelligently handled. (George Auric's score, incidentally, masterfully underlines the terror of the townspeople...
...Bridge on the River Kwai, by British Composer Malcolm Arnold, skillfully melds its bellowing brasses and shivering strings with such traditional military airs as the Colonel Bogey March in a score long on pomp, short on circumstance. RCA Victor's Bonjour Tristesse, by French Composer Georges Auric-member of the sometime modernist group known as The Six*-offers the listener a deft American Express tour of the French psyche, is at its best when it cuts loose with some lowdown jazz...
Writer-director Clair uses this circular plot to create a series of situations which are not only broadly funny in themselves, but subtly satiric of modern phenomena like assembly lines, time clocks, and politicians. Emphasizing visual humor, A Nous La Liberte deflates these institutions swiftly and economically. And George Auric's musical score, which supplements and sometimes replaces the sparse dialogue, is as delightful as it is appropriate...
Poet Cocteau is nonetheless a clever, imaginative dreamer and a skilled film craftsman. With the help of Georges Auric's brilliantly appropriate music and some talented, attractive players, his movie never fails to be dramatic and provocative, or to keep the audience guessing just what will happen next. Those who try to get to the bottom of it all may conclude that Cocteau's waters are not so deep as they are muddy, but the ripples are something...
...Milhaud, Durey, Auric, Honegger, Poulenc, Tailleferre...