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Soundtracking with Edith Bowman

Episode 393: Garth Davis On The Music Of Foe

Soundtracking with Edith Bowman

Edith Bowman

Music, Tv & Film, Arts

4.6754 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Our latest guest on Soundtracking is Garth Davis, who makes a welcome return to discuss his psychological sci-fi thriller, Foe. Based on the book by Iain Reid, it stars Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal as a couple whose life is turned upside down when a stranger arrives at their farm to tell them one of them will be sent to a space station, while the other will be left in the company of a robot. Unusually, Foe is scored by 3 composers, so find out right here what Garth had in mind with that decision ...

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0:00.0

Hi folks. How are you? I hope this finds you well. Monday morning here in the land of

0:05.1

soundtracking with me, Edith Bowman, and a busy old time we are having of it, which is great.

0:10.8

It's my favourite time of the year. You've probably heard me say that before because there's

0:14.5

just an abundance of stuff around at the minute, around award season, around festivals.

0:20.5

So we have got quite a lot of episodes already in the can. Yeah. at the minute around award season, around festivals.

0:26.3

So we have got quite a lot of episodes already in the can, which is very exciting with the likes of Todd Haynes, Mark Ronson, Molly Manning Walker about how to have sex, which you

0:33.6

all have to see when it hits cinemas on the 3rd of November.

0:37.4

And also, guess who I managed to catch up with once again this week?

0:41.3

And actually, it was recorded.

0:43.2

Talking heads!

0:44.1

Yeah!

0:44.9

So that's on the way.

0:46.2

Slightly giddy about that.

0:47.2

But anyway, that's the future.

0:49.3

This is the now.

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And our latest guest on soundtracking is the wonderful Garth Davis who returns to discuss his psychological sci-fi thriller full.

1:00.8

Now that kind of description I feel almost kind of, for me it's the most beautiful, subtle but devastating film in that it's so

1:12.0

considered and the performances are just

1:14.9

so fantastic. It's very playlike and

1:18.8

it's based on the book by Ian Reid. It stars

1:21.8

Sir Sharonin who I love and Paul Meskow who I also love

1:25.6

and they are a couple whose life's turned upside down

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