Episode 183: Todd Haynes On The Music Of Dark Waters

Soundtracking with Edith Bowman

Edith Bowman

Music, Tv & Film, Arts

4.6 • 754 Ratings

🗓️ 29 February 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Our latest guest on Soundtracking is returning for a second visit to discuss a film that had an instant and lasting impact on us, and has set critics purring - with one boldly describing it as 'the perfect movie'.

Dark Waters sees the delightful Todd Haynes direct Mark Rufallo as real-life lawyer Robert Billot, taking on American chemical giant DuPont on behalf of plaintiffs in West Virginia. Though Todd draws inspiration from classic conspiracy thrillers such as All The Presidents Men, he is ultimately more interested in his characters - the victims - and how their lives are quietly devastated by cynical forces way beyond their control.

As well as featuring plenty of country music as source, Dark Waters is beautifully scored by Marcelo Zarvos

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0:30.2	Our latest guest on soundtrack and in fact before I get to our latest guest, I should
0:34.0	apologize for the croakiness of my voice, nothing more terrifying than just
0:39.2	overuse. Anyway, back to our guest is returning for a second visit to discuss a film that had an
0:46.5	instant and lasting impact on me and a set critics purring with one boldly describing it as
0:53.3	the perfect movie. Dark Waters sees the delightful
0:57.8	Todd Haynes direct Mark Ruffalo as real-life lawyer Robert Billet, taking an American
1:03.7	chemical joint DuPont on behalf of plaintiffs in West Virginia. Now though Todd draws
1:09.6	inspiration from classic conspiracy thrillers such as
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