Double-Vie

I just finished watching The Double Life of Veronique (La double vie de Veronique) with msalim. It had a georgeous score and reminded me quite a lot of Bleu, especially considering it's from the same composer (Preisner) & directing/writing team. The music, especially the choral music towards the start of the film, was amazing, at least as good as the best moments of the Bleu soundtrack. The plot was a bit surreal and not suited for late-night movie watching due to the paucity of dialogue but the movie was quite enjoyable.

There was a funny moment towards the end of the film: we both were getting sleepy, as were the characters in the film. Watching the characters falling asleep and crawling into bed was just too much and knocked us out as well.. it's an amusing image, thinking of real people asleep in a room while watching a movie where the characters have also fallen asleep.

In other news, I had a fun dinner evening with my married friends L & M, involving much talk about music theory. They told me about Persichetti's symbols describing the gradient between consonance and dissonance for the different musical intervals. It reminds me of Hindemith's chord quality categories.