L’amour ouf is currently enjoying incredible success (it will cross the 3 million records milestone tonight or tomorrow). Its casting appeals to all generations, its love story spanning centuries and ambitious staging.
What if another component of this success was his music? Filled with hits and gems from the 80s and 90s, this playlist was definitely playing at his level. As our colleagues at Le Parisien pointed out this weekend, the two songs that can be heard in the film have seen a meteoric rise in the charts, in this case. forest healing and Eyes without a face by Billy Idol. Both are in the top 100 most listened songs on Spotify in France.
Discover the full tracklist from the film below:
AlloCiné was able to catch up with Gilles Lelouch a few days before the film’s release, and we asked him, despite this playlist, which is already very rich in hits, he missed the song.
Then Gilles Lelouch explained how he couldn’t finally get the song he dreamed of… This song is called Never let us goPerformed by the Australian group INXS, also known for their hits need you tonight or even Blonde suicide.
The reason why this song eluded Gilles Lelouch, of course, has to do with its value. But why was this song so expensive? The reason is surprising!
Gilles Lelouch explains in the video below:
“There is music that escaped me in terms of money, budget, because this music was taken from the TV series “Euphoria”. And as a result, they went crazy, but they went completely crazy with the prices. This is an INXS song. Never let us go. So I did without this music, but I didn’t miss it.”
After that, Gilles Lelouch told us that the amount requested was 200,000 euros. In comparison, the song is like forest It cost 15,000 euros from The Cure.
Gilles Lelouch adds:The music that is really essential to the film is in it. At least the ones I had in my head for 17 years. It’s The Cure, it’s Billy Idol, Foreigner and a rap song.”
A scene cut from the script at the piano by François Civil
A song that is too expensive can hide another! François Civil also confided that he should play the song year of the cat by Al Stewart, but the scene ultimately did not appear in the film. “It was mentioned in the script,” he says.
“true He was in Billy Idol’s place. He was there from the beginning. But the owners of the rights to this group, Al Stewart, who no one knows, went crazy on the pricesGilles Lelouch adds.
Gilles Lelouch finally explains : “Because I had another problem. The Cure, who gave me the rights to his music. I thought it was going to be expensive and it wasn’t really that expensive. On the other hand, they said “Be careful, if a piece is more expensive than us, we will list it as the most expensiveSo if I started taking a precious piece, it increased everyone else and reduced my little purse! And as a result, we have to make trade-offs“.
As our colleagues told us BFM TVThe entire music for the film L’Amour ouf would have cost around 750,000 euros (soundtrack directed by Emmanuel Ferrier). “And again, it should have been more expensive“, notes Allen Attal, “But slowly Gilles wanted to lower his sails a bit, so as not to make a jukebox with his film..”
The use of pipes remains a rare practice in France mainly for budgetary reasons
“If the use of these works is directed by the directors themselves, it is thanks to musical directors such as Sasha White, continues BFM. “Our role as supervisors is to realize the production vision– he summarizes. About ten people in France are engaged in this growing profession.”
BFM TV specifies:The use of pipes remains a rare practice in France mainly for budgetary reasons. “In 90% of cases it is a question of time or money– confirms Sasha White.There may be rejections based on the context of the music’s use or budget, or if we were simply unable to contact the artist. Because it is he who must accept or refuse.”
L’Amour ouf (and its excellent playlist and soundtrack by John Brion) is currently in theaters.
Source: Allocine
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