Jon Burlingame Composer Alexandre Desplat has made seven films with George Clooney, either as producer or director — including the Oscar-winning “Argo” and the Oscar-nominated “Syriana” — but creating music for “The Midnight Sky” may have been the their biggest challenge to date.“Music is a character in this film because a good portion of it is silent,” Clooney tells Variety. “My intent was for the film to be a meditation.
Music had to be our language — not just highlighting moments of sadness or terror, but also to carry the emotion all the way through.
Music was always going to be as big a character as any of the actors.”Desplat recalls that Clooney wanted him “to carry the emotion of the characters, and both the intimacy and the wide.
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