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Given his status as America's top male sex symbol, there's a perverse irony to Tom Cruise's virtually simmer-free performance in this would-be erotic thriller,
Vanilla Sky, Cameron Crowe's remake of Spanish director Alejandro Amenábar's
Abre los Ojos ("Open Your Eyes"). But ifCrowe stops just short of delivering another undercooked Tom turkey, his vaunted early years as boy-wonder rock writer--and the help of frequent collaborator Danny Bramson--informs the film with an exceptionally rich and eclectic pop-musicscore that leans heavily on unreconstructed psychedelia. Such was the Crowe-Bramson reputation that they secured original songs by no less than REM (the janglypop of "All the Right Friends") and Paul McCartney (a playfully obtuse title track that would otherwise be a stand-out on any modern Mac album), wrapping them in one sublime surprise, original and otherwise:
Sigur Rós's hypnotic "Svefn-g-englar"; the gorgeous languor of "Have You Forgotten" by Red House Painters; star Cameron Diaz debuting as a singer (under the name Julianna Gianni) with Crowe and wife/film scorer/Heart guitarist Nancy Wilson in Wilson's equally dreamy "I Fall Apart"; the Monkees' psychedelic "Porpoise Song", Radiohead's "Everything in Its Right Place" and Jeff Buckley's "Last Goodbye". Constructed as the playlist of some strangely liberated FM broadcast that never was, this soundtrackis also a collection that proves that the best part of any turkey may well be the stuffing--sonic or otherwise.--
Jerry McCulley
Chronique amazon.fr
Remake de son propre film espagnol, le réalisateur Aleiandro Amenabar s'est offert pour
Vanilla Sky une américanisation à laquelle la bande originale n'échappe pas. Et c'est tant mieux ! En recadrant son œuvre originelle, le metteur en scène et le coordinateur de la compilation, Danny Bramson, tapent dans le mille. Chaque chanson colle au film de par sa structure musicale ou la signification de son texte. Accompagnant Tom Cruise dans sa quête intellectuelle, pour ne pas dire onirique, on retrouve R.E.M. – les bien nommés "All The Right Friends" et "Sweetness Follows" – ou encore Radiohead – "Everything In Its Right Place". Jeff Buckley, Peter Gabriel et les Chemical Brothers complètent cette compilation vanillée, laquelle termine son programme sur deux inédits absolument savoureux : la ballade "Vanilla Sky" de Paul Mc Cartney (nominé à l'oscar de la meilleure chanson) et surtout du petit bijou rock de la B.O.F., "Svefn-g-englar" du groupe islandais Sigur Ros. Une compilation soignée et mystique, évocation parfaite d'un film dont on ressort "planant".
--Didier Leprêtre