Los Angeles, CA (Top40 Charts/ CineMedia Promotions) Lakeshore Records will release the The Tree of Life - Original Motion Picture
Soundtrack available digitally and in stores on May 24, 2011. The soundtrack features original music by
Alexandre Desplat (The King's Speech, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1).
After composing the music for over 50 European films and being nominated for 2 Cesar Awards, Alexandre Desplat, burst onto the Hollywood scene in 2003 with his evocative score to Girl With The Pearl Earring, which earned him nominations from the Golden Globes, BAFTA and European Film Awards. He has since been nominated for four Oscars in the last five years.
Desplat's reputation was solidified by his critically acclaimed scores to Jonathan Glazer's film Birth and Stephen Gaghen's film Syriana, which earned him yet another Golden Globe nomination. The Queen garnered him his first Academy Award nomination. In the same year he was also won a Golden Globe Award for his score to The Painted Veil. His credits also include The Golden Compass, Lust, Caution, The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, Julie & Julia, Twilight Saga: New Moon, Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows (Part 1), and the Academy Award winning film The King's Speech, which brought him his fifth Golden Globe nomination and fourth Academy Award nomination. In 2010, Desplat was selected as one of the nine luminaries to serve as a juror for the 63rd Cannes Film Festival.
From Terrence Malick, the acclaimed director of such films as Badlands, Days of Heaven, and The Thin Red Line, The Tree of Life is the impressionistic story of a Mid-western family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father (Brad Pitt). Jack (played as an adult by Sean Penn) finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to theorigins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith. Through Malick's signature imagery, we see how both brute nature and spiritual grace shape not only our lives as individuals and families, but all life.
"At Terrence's request," Desplat described, "I did not wait for the film to be edited and I wrote and recorded various pieces born from our many conversations out of London, Austin, Paris and Los Angeles. During several months I dreamed of skies, rivers, emergence of life, tenderness of brotherhood, father and son relationship, loving mothers, rising suns."
He continued, "the score for The Tree of Life had to convey the river - like the motion of life, a fluid stream from birth to death, keeping a sense of Innocence, Purity, Simplicity. But it also had to oppose the Good and Evil, Light and Darkness, Happiness and Sorrow. And express how Love can slowly morph to Anger and back again."
Desplat was careful to select keys that were strongly related and appropriately 'light' for the film. In addition, "for some orchestral pieces, I used musical patterns unfolding in arborescence, alternatively motionless or very active, from the quietest dynamic to fortissimo. I also wrote several melodies that felt like ageless hymns or lullabies, keeping in mind that Simplicity remained the main concept."
Fox Searchlight Pictures presents The Tree of Life, in select theaters on May 27, 2011. The Tree of Life - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack on Lakeshore Records will be released digitally and in stores on May 24, 2011.
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