THE BEST OF ERIC SERRA (2CD)

Digitally remastered two CD set in luxurious packaging with a 16 page booklet (in French). Eric Serra is an award-winning French film music composer best known for his work with director Luc Besson. During the early '80s he was the bassist of French singer/songwriter Jacques Higelin, one of the country's biggest pop/rock stars of the era. Around this same time, he began collaborating with film director Luc Besson, starting with the score of the short film L'Avant Dernier (1981). Serra subsequently composed the music for Besson's first feature-length effort, Le Dernier Combat (1983), as well as successive films either directed or written by the filmmaker: Subway (1985), Kamikaze (1986), The Big Blue (1988), Nikita (1990), Atlantis (1991), Leon (1994), The Fifth Element (1997), The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999), Wasabi (2001), and Arthur And The Invisibles (2006, 2009 and 2010), The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec (2010), The Lady (2011) and Lucy (2014). In addition to his work with Besson, Serra composed music for other films, most notably GoldenEye (1995), which features one of the more inventive scores in the James Bond series and also Rollerball (2002), Bulletproof Monk (2003), Bandidas (2006) and others. The recipient of numerous accolades, Serra won the most prestigious of French film awards, a Cesar, in 1989 for his work on Le Grand Bleu. He was nominated for several other Cesar awards over the years, including nominations for his scores for the Besson films Subway, Nikita, Leon, The Fifth Element, and The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc.