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Philip Glass | Animals in Love
ARTISTS
Names
TRACK LISTING
1. Swans Take Flight
2. The Bath
3. The Gaze, the
4. The Battle
5. Ballet of the Birds
6. The Birth of the Fawn
7. The Peacock and the Japanese Cranes
8. The Grebe's Race on Water
9. The Kangaroos
10. From Insects to Whales
11. The Happy Couples
12. The Orangutans and the Small Ducks
13. From Gazelles to Kangaroos
14. The Return of the Animals
15. The Swans Return/End Title
THE FILM
Rated G
Filmed on over five continents, Animals In Love is a nature documentary observing the mating habits of animals in the wild...
The film's director, Laurent Charbonnier, is a veteran of wildlife photography. His previous film was the 2001 documentary, Travelling Birds, and he began this one by shooting in his own backyard in the French countryside. From here he embarked with a small crew on a two-year shoot ranging over 16 countries. Remote-controlled cameras lend an eye-balling intimacy yet it's basically a starry-eyed view of the natural world. Unruly animal behaviour isn't exactly ignored but most of it is corralled into a section dealing with jealous love. Stags lock horns over the doe of their choice. Elephant seals throw their weight around. Kangaroos settle their rivalries with a boxing match - as do hares - and that's about as rough as things get
THE MUSIC
Through his operas, his symphonies, his compositions for his own ensemble, and his wide-ranging collaborations with artists ranging from Twyla Tharp to Allen Ginsberg, Woody Allen to David Bowie, Philip Glass has had an extraordinary and unprecedented impact upon the musical and intellectual life of his times.
Glass has composed many film scores:
Secret Window (David Koepp, 2004), Candyman (Bernard Rose, 1992) and its sequel, Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh (Bill Condon, 1995). Most recently, Glass composed the scores for Neil Burger's The Illusionist and Richard Eyre's Notes on a Scandal in 2006, garnering his third Academy Award nomination for the latter. Glass's newest film scores include Scott Hicks's No Reservations (Glass makes a brief cameo in the film sitting at an outdoor cafe), Woody Allen's Cassandra's Dream plus many more..
The original motion picture soundtrack to this delightful and surprising documentary is a voyage discovery about the existence of love between animals in the wild.
Australian Film Release: March 2009
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