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FA6518 Un uomo a metà / Half a Man
Auther: Jonathan Broxton

ENNIO MORRICONE REVIEWS, Part 2-23

UN UOMO A METÀ (1966)

Un Uomo a Metà is an Italian drama film directed by Vittorio de Seta, which stars Jacques Perrin as Michele, a failed writer who, while incarcerated in a mental health clinic, looks back on his life to try to find the origin of his mental problems, including his controlling mother (Lea Padovani), his selfish brother (Gianni Garko), and his numerous failed relationships with women. The film was a critical success, with Perrin winning the Best Actor award for his performance during the 1966 Venice Film Festival.

Morricone’s score for Un Uomo a Metà comprises just one single piece, a 23-minute composition entitled Requiem Per Un Destino, which explores Michele’s damaged psyche and troubled past through a series of expressive, impressionistic orchestral and choral passages, usually written for overlapping layers of strings. One sequence – “Accettare, Comprende, Quest il Senso, il Segreto” – is especially noteworthy for the way the different parts of the string section shift against each other, sometimes tonally beautiful, sometimes uncomfortably dissonant.

Considering it’s nature as a one-movement score, the music for Un Uomo a Metà has been included many times on different compilations and releases over the years. The 2012 release from GDM/Legend presents the score in stereo, and with improved sound quality, for the first time, and pairs it with Morricone’s music from the 1968 film Ecce Homo.

Track Listing: 1. Requiem Per Un Destino (23:08). GDM/Legend 4217, 23 minutes 08 seconds.
August 20, 2017
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Attachment: About Jonathan Broxton
Jon is a film music critic and journalist, who since 1997 has been the editor and chief reviewer for Movie Music UK, one of the world’s most popular English-language film music websites, and is the president of the International Film Music Critics Association (IFMCA). Over the last 20+ years Jon has written over 3,000 reviews and articles and conducted numerous composer interviews. In print, Jon has written reviews and articles for publications such as Film Score Monthly, Soundtrack Magazine and Music from the Movies, and has written liner notes for two of Prometheus Records’ classic Basil Poledouris score releases, “Amanda” and “Flyers/Fire on the Mountain”. He also contributed a chapter to Tom Hoover’s book “Soundtrack Nation: Interviews with Today’s Top Professionals in Film, Videogame, and Television Scoring”, published in 2011. In the late 1990s Jon was a film music consultant to the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London, and worked with them on the films “Relative Values” with music by John Debney, and “The Ring of the Buddha” with music by Oliver Heise, as well as on a series of concerts with Randy Newman. In 2012, Jon chaired one of the “festival academies” at the 5th Annual Film Music Festival in Krakow, Poland. He is a member of the Society of Composers and Lyricists, the premier nonprofit organization for composers, lyricists, and songwriters working motion pictures, television, and multimedia. (Here)
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