Grizzly Bear To Provide Music For Upcoming Film ‘Blue Valentine’
Posted by PJ in Films, News, The Yellow Stereo
With many musicians/bands (Karen O of Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Broken Social Scene to name a few) providing music to films recently, it would come as almost no surprise that a trend is starting to begin, or continue rather, of these high-profile collaborations between these two spectrums of entertainment. Whether it be complete film scores ala Arcade Fire with Richard Kelly’s The Box, or the surprising soundtrack collection of New Moon, it seems Hollywood is continuing to dip into a well that’s ripe with opportunity. There’s seemingly no end to the kind of talent that’s circling indie music right now, so I think it’s a great for many bands to expose their music to a larger demographic.
This latest bit of news comes via The Playlist that mentions Brooklyn-based indie-rock band Grizzly Bear will be providing music for the upcoming film Blue Valentine starring Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams. It’s been a great year for the band as their latest album, Veckatimest, has garnered critical success as well as being a favorite around the blogosphere. The band also provided a track titled “Slow Life” for the previously mentioned New Moon soundtrack (so they’re definitely no stranger to this), which features guest vocals from Beach House vocalist Victoria Legrand.
From reading the synopsis, it seems to be the type of film that I can get behind:
“Blue Valentine” is an intimate, shattering portrait of a disintegrating marriage.
On the far side of a once-passionate romance, Cindy (Michelle Williams) and Dean (Ryan Gosling) are married with a young daughter. Hoping to save their marriage, they steal away to a theme hotel. We then encounter them years earlier, when they met and fell in love — full of life and hope.
Moving fluidly between these two time periods, “Blue Valentine” unfolds like a cinematic duet whose refrain asks, where did their love go? Framing the film as a mystery whose answer lies scattered in time (and in character), filmmaker Derek Cianfrance constructs an elegant set of dualities: past and present, youth and adulthood, vitality and entropy. The rigor of his process is visible throughout the film. Eliminating artificial devices, he has only the truth of the characters to work with. Because Gosling and Williams bring amazing intensity and emotional honesty to their roles, the experience of connecting to these two souls becomes truly moving.
Sounds to me like these two go hand-in-hand with one another. The Derek Cianfrance directed film will be premiering at Sundance on January 24th.
MP3: Grizzly Bear :: “Cheerleader”
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