One thing i kept from the Israeli movie "Waltz with Bashir" is one of the classical music piece used during and at the end of the movie. The usage of classical music is nothing really new: coppolla in Apocalypse now, Oliver Stone in Platoon,...But in that movie that is so personnal, traumatic and intimate they had to use some dark and sad music.
When i went to amazon to buy the sound track, i could not find any track except the rock/modern music. For some reasons they did not include any of the classical music. Why? : the Bach piano concerto #5, the Chopin Waltz (referred to in the title) and the watlz i was looking for, which is for me the central part of the sound track as it reveals the darkest moment of the story (no disclosure here of course). I asked my Twitter friends then...but no one could help me
I then ran a good old search in Google and stumbled upon an interview with Ari Folman (i recommend you read it) mentionning this piece of music: the Andantino from a piano Sonata by Schubert D959, one of his last. (here more information on that piece in Wikipedia) You can hear it below played by Rudolph Serkin. It does not sound like it but it is a waltz (3 beats), a dark and painful conflicted waltz where you can hear 2 delicate voices, interrupted by a fantasy-like minor movement coming back to the waltz and lead to silence. At the end of the movie they worked out the original in an electronic version with deep echo.
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More than the chopin waltz, that i nearly found inappropriate for the movie, i think this one embeds better the spirit of the story.
update: the music actually appears in the CD of the soundtrack. Called "Andante / Reflection" where only the beginning of the movement is played then transcribed for Trio (violin, cello, piano)
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