Hildur Guðnadóttir Used a Solo Clarinet to Help Create Jump Scares in ‘A Haunting in Venice’
variety.comJazz Tangcay Artisans Editor Hildur Guðnadóttir grew up on Agatha Christie mysteries. “I totally lived for those novels,” the composer says.
Ever since then, she has wanted to sink her teeth into story by the famous author. So when director Kenneth Branagh approached her, she said yes. “He wanted to do something darker and almost horror, and that dark stuff was tempting for me.” Dark moods are a signature theme for Guðnadóttir.
The Oscar-winning composer’s work includes “Joker,” “Sicario: Day of the Soldado,” “Tár” and she will be back for “Joker: Folie à Deux.” The film is based on Christie’s 1969 novel “Halloween Party,” and stars Tina Fey, Jude Hill, Kelly Reilly and Jamie Dornan, with Branagh reprising his role as Hercule Poirot from “Death on the Nile” and “Murder on the Orient Express.” Set in an eerie Venetian villa with a ghostly past, it revolves around a séance Poirot reluctantly attends on All Hallows’ Eve.
Oscar-winning actress Michelle Yeoh plays the medium who has connections to another world. Overall, the composer says she wanted to look at the questions the now-retired detective was asking himself. “He’s asking himself who he was before the war and who he wants to be in this post-war world,” she says.
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