Well for once , this is not a dance number !
It's the first Mashup video of that kind I made ; at the occasion of the Mashup film festival in Paris, I wanted to take a french chef d'oeuvre, and I focused on it !
Yes ,"Les disparus de saint Agil" was made in 1938 and is certainly a Chef d'oeuvre.
Directed by Christian Jacques with Dialogues from Jacques Prévert, I did the music on this one, inspired by the movie, and wonderfuly accompanied by the fantastic piano player Henri Jégou.
This piece will be part of a larger project dedicated to cinema. I've already composed 10 songs inspired by some movies that I consider as Master pieces, including some dialogues of them or interviews of great directors...So this is the first one.
It's also a mashup considering that I've been workin with great voices ; The fantastic Michel Simon of course but also, Éric Von Stroheim, the evil Robert Le Vigan, and Mouloudji who was at the time a child ! For me it was a great experience to work on this film as , when i was a child (in the 60s!) this movie was played on the french TV each Year at Christmas ! Also it was done just before the war, and you can smell the anguish growin through the dialogues and the story so, I think this movie is still...Modern !
Last thing I must say for my non-french audience, cos' I did the effort to do the subtitles myself with a little help from my english neighbour Frances, whom I thank ;
Martin was the common name for skelettons in french classrooms at the time...So Hello Martin !
I'll be playin at the Mashup Film Festival in Paris on June 24th
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