Exclusive: Youth Featurette – Paolo Sorrentino and David Lang Talk Music

Watch this brand new feature from Fox Searchlight on the music in Youth. Director Paolo Sorrentino talks about the creative way in which music is used in the film. Last month, I sat down with composer David Lang to talk to him about that and he says, “This project, the music was going to be seen on screen, and the music was going to be such an important part of the way the story gets told that I had to start working and finish the music before the script was finished.”  He added, “I wanted to deal with the music operatically. That you would make things that would be little motives, so by the time the song comes at the end of the movie you’re ready for it. I planted these little things through the score, so the candy wrappers that he plays with are like the rhythm of the violin at the beginning of the song. The boy scraping the violin. The cows and their tune is the harmony from the second half of the song. What I was really hoping would happen was you would get the sense that the music is the interior life of the character. That when you heard the song you would realize that you’d been around that interior story for the movie.”

Watch the exclusive feature below:

Youth is on general release now