We were disappointed with Will Gregory and Alison Goldfrapp’s score for “Nowhere Boy,” but Gregory’s work on Pawel Pawlikowski’s “My Summer of Love” is rather wonderful. Now, Pitchfork are reporting that he’ll be teaming with Portishead member Adrian Utley on a new score for Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1928 classic “The Passion of Joan of Arc.”
The pair previously collaborated on a score for the 1999 Northern Irish crime thriller “Accelerator,” and Utley also composed music for the Stellan Skasgard/Charlotte Rampling film “Signs & Wonders.” The piece will feature six guitarists, singers from the Monteverdi choir, percussionists and horn and keyboard players, and will be premiered at a screening of the film at the Colston Hall in Bristol on May 7th. Tickets aren’t yet on sale, but we urge any local readers to check it out. For anyone else, hopefully the score will get a release at some point (fingers crossed maybe on a new Blu-Ray of the film. Criterion, are you listening?…), but there’s no official word on this yet.