I’m looking forward to seeing The Vintner’s Luck, a new NZ film by Niki Caro based on the book by Elizabeth Knox… A local arts website, The Big Idea had an interview with the director recently & as a competition to win tickets to see the film they provided the opportunity to ask her about the film. So of course I asked her about the score!
TP: “I hear the film has a beautiful, subtle score – who was the composer & what was their initial brief?”
NZ: “Hi Tim. The composer is Antonio Pinto from Brazil. I had admired his work for Walter Salles (‘Behind the Sun’)and Fernando Meirelles (City of God). The initial brief was to create a score that was very human. To do this we concentrated on instruments that were plucked or blown, that subtly expressed the human body at work. Our budget was very small, so the score is created by very few musicians, rather than an orchestra. It’s not a big Hollywood orchestral score, which would have been inappropriate as it’s not a big Hollywood movie. Neither is it a period drama in the BBC style. Antonio’s approach was very passionate, very sensual and very inventive. The first musical notes you hear in the film, for instance, are very haunting and it’s hard to determine what instrument it is. This is because the notes were created by Antonio running a finger around a wine glass. These notes were sampled and the motif is used in key moments throughout the score.”
Heres the trailer:
