The women singing "la" and the little sound effects like chimes.so haunting.
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jootsyfruit — 10 years ago(April 04, 2015 10:48 PM)
I was just coming on here to mention this score. I'm watching it now and I think the music is probably the creepiest soundtrack I ever heard, even over The Omen with the Gregorian chant. The woman's voice is quite haunting and creepy. I can't really think of a scarier score. And Klute isn't even a horror movie,
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Tullyboy — 9 years ago(July 09, 2016 02:39 PM)
Yes, yes, yes it makes me feel as if I'm watching a sheer curtain moving, gently rippling back and forth through a window it takes me in, it NEVER competes with the story . . .and the subtle lullaby-like progression brings that sense of some kind of naivete, innocence
swirling around her at
various points Bree (great character name) really
doesn't know what she's been
playing at all these years and the unseen dangers.
The sound and musical score
in "A Streetcar Named Desire"
has some of that same effect
for me. These elements can
entirely make or break the
tension and magic of a film
like "Klute" . . . .
Though I was in my early 20's
when "Klute" was released, I
hadn't seen it until a couple
years ago . . . Now, I record
it when it's on TCM and
watch it a few times over a
month. It's beautifully
seductive on many levels for
me.
Though Jane has often been
as actress I had difficulty
connecting with oddly,
because of the unusually low
timbre of her voice and that the way she spoke often sounded somewhat too self-assured I can't quite imagine any other actress delivering such a unique, powerful, spot-on feel to
this amazing character. For me, this is the most outstanding, truly memorable performance of her career thus far.