Much of the hypnotic pull of Charlie Kaufman’s “I’m Thinking of Ending Things” belongs to the soundscape created by composer Jay Wadley, who draws from Debussy, Ravel, and Stravinsky to create a palpable atmosphere of menace and swirling uncertainty. In the featurette below and exclusive to IndieWire, Wadley breaks down his process, the head-exploding opportunity of working with writer/director Kaufman, and the influences that drove him to compose the 100% original ballet that caps the film.
As delirious as Jessie Buckley’s character, a woman adrift in her relationship while on a fraught road trip to meet her boyfriend’s (Jesse Plemons) parents (Toni Colette and David Thewlis), becomes, so too is the audience plunged into a fragmenting mind whose sanity is shifting like tectonic plates, a seism just around the bend. That’s in part due to the music, which hurtles between genres, culminating in the film’s biggest set piece,...
As delirious as Jessie Buckley’s character, a woman adrift in her relationship while on a fraught road trip to meet her boyfriend’s (Jesse Plemons) parents (Toni Colette and David Thewlis), becomes, so too is the audience plunged into a fragmenting mind whose sanity is shifting like tectonic plates, a seism just around the bend. That’s in part due to the music, which hurtles between genres, culminating in the film’s biggest set piece,...
- 9/9/2020
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
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