The 2014 film Maps to the Stars connects the savage beauty of writer Bruce Wagner's Los Angeles with the riveting film making of director David Cronenberg and a stellar ensemble cast to take a tour into the darkly comic heart of a Hollywood family chasing celebrity, one another and the relentless ghosts of their pasts. The result is a modern Hollywood Gothic at once about the ravenous 21st Century need for fame and validation. Howard Shore's breathtaking score emphasizes the yearning, loss and fragility that lurk in the shadows underneath.
N**R
Rhythmical Dreamscape
Howard Shore is a master at finding the perfect tone that evokes and enhances the subtext of a film ("Maps to the Stars" has lots of subtext). This is a very beautiful and subtle, dreamscape of a score: sophisticated, layered electronics combined with hypnotic percussion (great tabla playing) and classical string orchestrations. The soundtrack holds up completely on its own as a unified statement, perfect for either background or up close, attentive listening. The complex, trance-inducing rhythms, along with the celestial backdrops, create a mystical floating sensation, with a distinct sense of longing and melancholy - quite gorgeous.
N**S
Five Stars
Nice music
B**4
Great psychological score
This score by Howard Shore for Maps to the Stars was the best part of the film in my opinion. It gave the film the hazy, nightmarish quality that director David Cronenberg was going for.
Trustpilot
4 days ago
3 weeks ago
