This is a classical Cannes

From the epic to the intimate, classical music has been at the centre of some of the most ambitious films at the Cannes festivalI've been especially interested this year in the striking use of classical music in scores for films in contention for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes film festival.Particularly brilliant, I thought, was the use of a single phrase of Beethoven's Emperor Concerto in Luc Dardennes's The Kid With a Bike. The film, which pleased me enormously for the economy, even severity, of...

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