Maurice Jarre: A man with eyes AND a face

I recently watched Georges Franju's Les yeux sans visage (Eyes Without a Face, for the less pretentious of us), and was immediately captivated by the music in the film. Maurice Jarre, the famed composer of the Lawrence of Arabia score, perfectly accentuates the skin-crawliness of this film. There are two main treatments of music in Les yeux: one, a forlorn lullaby, the other, a demented carnival waltz. The aforementioned lullaby can be heard in the track "Thème Romantique". Jarre flawlessly Read more [...]