Interview With "The Peasants" Composer Łukasz "L.U.C." Rostkowski

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

"The Peasants" had its world premiere at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival after many years of hard work from directors DK Welchman and Hugh Welchman, who had a massive task in front of them to live up to expectations following the Oscar-nominated success of "Loving Vincent." Told with the same meticulous hand-painted techniques as that film, this adaptation of Władysław Reymont's Nobel Prize-winning novel of the same name is another huge milestone in the world of animation. The film's composer, Łukasz "L.U.C." Rostkowski, was kind enough to spend a few minutes of his time discussing his work on the film, which is just as beautiful to listen to as the film's visuals are to look at. Please be sure to check out the film when it releases in the U.S. from Sony Pictures Classics on January 26th, which is up for your consideration in all eligible categories at this year's Academy Awards, including Best Animated Feature and Best Original Score. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcast Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Next Best Picture podcast, and this is my interview with the composer for The Peasants.
0:07.6	Lukas Rukovsky.
0:09.0	Yagna Dominicova?
0:11.5	She'll nao.
0:14.4	I'll tell you, I'll say, I'm not a couple of the years of the people.
0:19.2	Ah, Lodziska pleading no pleads. Orchenic she's a child. A man, A ludicca plet on bleinople.
0:22.6	Orenie to have to be.
0:24.6	I'm not gonna.
0:26.6	I'm gonna.
0:27.6	Let's ya, Mour.
0:28.6	I'ma. I am being joined right now here on the podcast by the composer for the animated film The Peasants.
0:51.1	You might know him as Lucas Roskowski, but you can also call him LUC or Luke. Luke,
0:58.7	thank you so much for joining us here on the podcast, talk about your work on this phenomenal film.
1:03.6	Thank you so much for this invitation. It's honor for me. Thank you. Absolutely. I'm very excited because
1:09.6	I remember when I saw this movie at the world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, and I walked out pretty overwhelmed emotionally by the story that had just taken place. But I remember turning to my colleague who was with me and saying, I need that score. I need that score in my life when it
1:28.1	becomes available to listen to over and over. So credit to you for creating music that not only
1:34.7	fit the piece, if you will, but also too really was able to stand out a major way. Thank you so much.
1:43.1	Thank you. That's a really crazy adventure for me,
1:47.4	because we got to say that this is one of my first score. Yeah. So that's like the main question
1:54.0	is how did you come aboard this process from the beginning seeing as how, like you said,
2:00.0	it's one of your first scores you've worked on
2:02.2	yeah so that's a funny story because you know like i'm i'm doing music for 20 years and i was like
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