Amélie (soundtrack)

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Amélie

Soundtrack by Yann Tiersen

Released

October 1, 2001

Recorded

Unknown

Genre

Film soundtrack

Length

53:03

Label

Virgin Records

Producer

???

Professional reviews

???

Yann Tiersen chronology

Black Session
(1999)

Amélie
(2001)

L'Absente
(2001)

Amélie is the soundtrack or original score to the French Academy Award- and Golden Globe-nominated motion picture Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain (Amélie).

Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet chanced upon the largely accordion and piano driven music of Yann Tiersen while driving with his production assistant who put on a CD he hadn't heard before. Greatly impressed, he immediately bought Tiersen's entire catalogue and eventually commissioned him to compose pieces for the film. The soundtrack features both compositions from Tiersen's first three albums, but also new items, variants of which can be found on his fourth album, L'Absente, which he was writing at the same time.

Beside the accordion and piano the music features parts played with harpsichord, banjo, bass guitar, vibraphone and even a bicycle wheel at the end of La Dispute (which plays over the opening titles in the motion picture).

Prior to discovering Tiersen, Jeunet was primarily considering composer Michael Nyman to score the film.

1 Track listing
- 1.1 Comptine d'un autre été: L'après-midi
- 1.2 Les jours tristes
2 Certifications
3 References

[edit] Track listing

"J'y suis jamais allé" - 1:34
"Les jours tristes (Instrumental)" - 3:03
"La valse d'Amélie (Original version)" - 2:15
"Comptine d'un autre été: l'après-midi" - 2:20
"La noyée" - 2:03
"L'autre valse d'Amélie" - 1:33
"Guilty (Al Bowlly)" - 3:13
"À quai" - 3:32
"Le moulin" - 4:27
"Pas si simple" - 1:52
"La valse d'Amélie (Orchestral version)" - 2:00
"La valse des vieux os" - 2:20
"La dispute" - 4:15
"Si tu n'étais pas là (Fréhel)" - 3:29
"Soir de fête" - 2:55
"La redécouverte" - 1:13
"Sur le fil" - 4:23
"Le banquet" - 1:31
"La valse d'Amélie (Piano version)" - 2:38
"La valse des monstres" - 3:39

[edit] Comptine d'un autre été: L'après-midi

Comptine D'un Autre Été: L'après-midi is a piano piece composed by Yann Tiersen, best known from Amélie but also used in the German movie Good Bye Lenin!, for which Yann Tiersen also composed the soundtrack.

The composition is quite a melancholy tune in the key of E minor, played with simple accompaniment patterns. It is understood within the film to contribute a sadness to the film, representing days gone by, in combination with the simple beauty of the piece representing the contrasting emotions felt by the titular character at that point in the film.

Recently used as the departing theme music on the BBC television show The Restaurant.

[edit] Les jours tristes

Les Jours Tristes was co-written with Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy. The track later received English lyrics, and was released by The Divine Comedy as a b-side to the Regeneration single Perfect Lovesong. The English language version also appeared on Tiersen's L'Absente.