- Composed by Mychael Danna
- Varèse Sarabande / 45m
Based on the 2006 Danish film of the same name, After the Wedding stars Michelle Williams, who travels from Kolkata in India to New York to try to raise some much-needed funds for the orphanage she runs. Director Bart Freundlich turned to Mychael Danna for the music – no stranger to films with an Indian flavour (albeit a superficial one in this case) and no stranger to serious dramas. His unusual score travels across a huge range during its brief running time (just over half an hour, with three songs making up the balance of the album) – there’s a gorgeous ethnically-tinged flavour at times, but only at times – the opening cue, “Isabel”, being a little misleading in that regard with its prominent use of the Indian bansuri flute. I was looking forward to an album of such swooning beauty, but it goes off on a very different course – one that turns out to be very rewarding indeed.
