A fine soundtrack, one I'd recommend to everyone I know. Magnolia the soundtrack: brilliant, warm, engrossing. A fine film, but I wouldn't recommend it to all my friends. Maybe much of it is tasteful Muzak, but so what? Aside from its first two tunes - a sloppy novelty sung by Matt Damon and Jude Law, followed by the former’s painful Chet Baker impression - the album evokes a stroll through a Mediterranean marketplace. Magnolia the movie: brilliant, but lacking closure love is an undertone to the central theme of breaking away engrossing except when it runs off at the mouth. Still, Ripley’s scenery is breathtaking, and the music nicely matches the Italian vistas and cool Vespas, if only in the most obvious way. Ripley’s music oozes the bland elegance of an upscale shopping mall-not necessarily a bad thing, but a bit lazy (too bad the filmmakers didn’t take more risks, like the track from obscure British folk-rocker John Martyn). Although jazz giants like Charlie Parker and Miles Davis are sprinkled throughout, Anthony Minghella’s movie leans heavily on Gabriel Yared’s dreamy orchestral mood music (Sinead O’Connor lends her voice to the eerie ”Lullaby for Cain”). Ripley, on the other hand, is the rare soundtrack that both complements the movie and captures its mood on CD.
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