IN THE TRACKS OF : GABRIEL YARED (DVD: NTSC)

“In the tracks of” is a collection of documentaries about the greatest film composers. Gabriel Yared’s portrait is the first documentary of the collection. This documentary offers a view of the composer’s career, merging his professional path with a more personal reflection that touches upon the act of creating.

Gabriel Yared shares his daily life, presents the way he approaches the role of his compositions, whether they are destined for films or for ballet. The documentary incorporates the testimonies of directors and the composer’s thoughts on different scores and encounters. His compositions cohabit with his silences. His doubts and questions regarding the mystery of the act of creation run throughout the film, and yet music is for him an absolute and infinite art.

Recent years have revealed the full extent of Gabriel Yared’s talent: a writing that is very exigent, sometimes influenced by Jean-Sebastien Bach’s oeuvre, with extremely elaborate rhythms at times, but where emotion, amplified by brilliant orchestration, is never missing. Gabriel Yared continues relentlessly to express his desire to escape from the “romantic composer” label, which the film world has ascribed to him, ever since The English Patient. Indeed, he is one of the rare film composers to be so demanding in the practice of his art.
With numerous film clips, interviews with musicians and filmmakers, and his passion for music, his experience and vision as an artist, this film transports us in his creation, making us discover a world rich with knowledge, emotions and allows us to better understand Gabriel Yared’s dazzling contribution to film music.

“Nothing prepared me for becoming a film composer. I am not a visual person, I am not a cinephile, I don’t go to the cinema. I am very short-sighted and for this reason I have trouble tolerating the omnipresence of images on the big screen! As a composer, I am rather introverted. It is inside myself that I really find images, suggested or inspired by words and the magic of memory!


“In the tracks of Gabriel Yared” - 52’
is the first of a series of 52’ documentaries about the greatest International film scores composers. As an international composer, Gabriel Yared has written the original score of numerous films, including “Betty Blue ”by Jean-Jacques Beineix, “Camille Claudel” by Bruno Nuytten, “The Lover” by Jean-Jacques Annaud, “The English Patient”, Cold Mountain”, “The Talented Mister Ripley” and “Breaking & Entering” by Anthony Minghella. Interviews : Anthony Minghella, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Jean-paul Rappeneau, Michel Ocelot, Jezan-Hugues Anglade, John Bell, Karl Hyde, Rick Smith, Carolyn Carlson.

CONTENTS DVD / Gabriel YARED

Format : NTSC
Language : French / English

? Documentary : 52 min

? Concert of Gabriel Yared : 60 min
Concert at “Espace Cardin” in January 22, 2007. Composed of 14 musicians, this configuration gives a very intimate concert close to the audience. It includes eight soundtracks.

? Booklet (16 pages, texts + photos - French / English)

- Conversations with participants (71 mn) :
John Bell - Orchestrator / UK
Jean Pierre Arquie - Musical supervisor / France
Carolyn Carlson - Choreographer / France
Anthony Minghella - Director / USA
Jean-Hugues Anglade - Actor / France
Jean-Jacques Annaud - Director / France
Underworld - Musicians / UK

- Conversations with Gabriel Yared (28 mn) - from the label.