Official Soundtrack to the Critically-Acclaimed New Film, Hostiles, Featuring Music by Max Richter, is Available Now on all Digital Platforms
For immediate release
Official Soundtrack to the Critically-Acclaimed New Film, Hostiles, Featuring Music by Max Richter, is Available Now on all Digital Platforms
Physical Copies to be Released February 9
09 January 2018 (Toronto, ON) – Award-winning composer Max Richter’s latest film score for director Scott Cooper’s film Hostiles, conveys the power of the human spirit to overcome hatred and division. With beauty and restraint, the wild landscapes of a world in which individuals collide with forces beyond their control are evoked through Richter’s moving compositions. The official soundtrack is now available on all digital platforms with physical copies being released on February 9 via Deutsche Grammophon/Universal Music Canada, the country’s leading music company. Listen to the Hostiles soundtrack HERE.
Hostiles is set in the American West of the early 1890s when the Second Industrial Revolution was fast changing society and the native population had been defeated after decades of war with the US Army. Based on an original story by Academy Award-winning screenwriter Donald E. Stewart, the film follows the relationship between a cavalry captain and war hero turned jailer, Joseph Blocker (Christian Bale), and Yellow Hawk (Wes Studi), a Northern Cheyenne chief held prisoner by Blocker at Fort Berringer, a dismal, dust-blown outpost in New Mexico. Blocker accompanies the dying Yellow Hawk and his family back to their tribal home in Montana, a journey that takes them through the striking scenery of America’s heartlands. Along the way they are joined by Rosalee Quaid (Rosamund Pike), a traumatised survivor of a bloody Comanche massacre. As these three characters, whose lives have been shattered by violence, bloodshed and loss, fight to survive in the hostile landscape of the American frontier, they grow ever closer as mutual suspicion is replaced by tolerance and their aversion replaced by empathy.
Echoing the compelling human drama of Hostiles, the score for this period Western, performed by the Air Lyndhurst Orchestra, combines the haunting stillness and elegiac beauty of Richter’s Waltz with Bashir music with the noir-like intensity of his recent soundtrack for the hit BBC TV series Taboo. Tracks such as the plaintive “A Woman Alone” mirror the film’s hard psychological edges and the transformation of conflict and ill-will into compassion and love. The soundtrack also includes the heart-breaking “How Shall a Sparrow Fly”, written and performed by star Americana singer-songwriter Ryan Bingham.
Grammy and Emmy nominated Max Richter has been widely acclaimed for his work in film and television. Recent awards include The European Film Academy Award for Waltz with Bashir, the International Film Music Critics Award for The Leftovers, and a German Film Award and Australian Film Critics Award for Lore.
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