Amélie

I wonder if there's anything better than listening to Yann Tiersen while doing your French homework. Today I was reminded just how heartbreakingly beautiful the soundtrack to 'Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain' is and now I'm finding it hard to listen to anything else. I don't know who it was, but somebody played a piece from it on the piano in the school hall and the most gorgeous visions of Paris, beaming sunlight and pageboy haircuts started appearing in my head. The movie is definitely a favourite of mine and one that can be watched several times without ever becoming boring. I've seen it a lot of times now, but when watching it I still discover new things. I think that's a quite rare and wonderful feature for a film to have. So, as things go, I have now discovered the fact that the soundtrack is also a very, very nice thing. In particular I'm obsessed with the two segments 'J'y Suis Jamais Allé' and 'Comptine D'un Autre Été, L'après-Midi' and both are stuck in my head. I simply cannot get over the brilliance, the mood and the amount of emotions and memories this music carries. It is an excellent example of one the things music is so good at - transforming and creating a mood, often sending you off to a completely different place than where you actually are. It is more than once that I've been listening to music while on the road and then having to take my headphones off - only to suddenly be confronted with the silence. The sounds of the world are nice, but the way you can create your own little world just by sticking earbuds in your ears is quite mesmerizing, I think.