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Being Julia

Being Julia
Various Artists

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Track Listing

  1. Curtain Up
  2. Real World - The Mills Brothers
  3. Lift
  4. Bei Mir Bist du Schön
  5. Farewell My Love
  6. Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries
  7. Never Seen Them Shine Like That Before
  8. Birthday Presents
  9. It Will Only End in Tears
  10. They Didn't Believe Me - Denzel Sinclair
  11. Charades
  12. I Saw the Light On
  13. Am I Late
  14. Not That Sort of Girl - Denzel Sinclair
  15. Take a Break
  16. Yes, Yes - Alison Jiear
  17. Avice Gets the Part
  18. Reunion - The Andrews Sisters
  19. Play for the Other Side
  20. Mad About the Boy
  21. Jimmy's Magic
  22. Avice Takes a Bow
  23. For Old Times' Sake
  24. Laird O'Drumblair
  25. Stage Is Set
  26. Curtain Call
  27. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
  28. Quite Alone

Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #138468 in Music
  • Released on: 2004-11-16
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Format: Soundtrack
  • Original language: English

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
Based on Somerset Maugham's middling novel Theater, Annette Bening stars as the title character, an aging star of the London stage whose life and the melodramas she performs have come to mirror each other. Composer Mychael Danna sets those conflicts to a score that emphasizes theatrical surfaces and rigid role-playing, utilizing a finely honed classical pastiche approach with parallels to his previous period-evoking work on Vanity Fair. His cues here are rooted in the light romantic chamber music of the 19th century, though they frequently bristle with a more contemporary energy and aplomb. Offering counterpoint to Danna's dignified, oft-precious classical confections and mining the story's more sensual human dimensions are pop chestnuts from the era (The Andrews Sisters' saucy "Bei Mir Bist Du Schon" and Mills Brothers' jaunty "Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries"), as well as fine contemporary takes of "They Didn't Believe Me" and Noel Coward's "Mad About the Boy" by Denzel Sinclair and Alison Jicar's elegant read of "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes." --Jerry McCulley

Customer Reviews

Beautiful melody but lacks variety4
Being Julia OST has a beautiful main melody which occurs over and over again throughout the tracks. I especially like "Curtain Up" and "Quite Alone". However, Being Julia OST doesn't have other strong melody to show along side with the main melody which seems a little too simple for a complete album. The movie is great too. Annette Bening's performance is outstanding.