Ennio Morricone - La Notte E Il Momento (Original Soundtrack) - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Beat Records is pleased to reissue on CD the brilliant OST by Ennio Morricone for the romantic film La notte e il momento, directed in 1995 by Anna Maria Tatò with a screenplay by Anna Maria Tatò and Jean-Claude Carrière, photography by Giuseppe Rotunno, editing by Ruggero Mastroianni, music by Ennio Morricone, production by Arthur Pictures, Société Française de Production (Sfp), and Cecchi Gori Group - Tiger Cinematografica, distribution by Cecchi Gori Group, and a cast featuring Willem Dafoe, Lena Olin, Jean-Claude Carrière, Miranda Richardson, Carole Richert, Christine Sireyzol, Guy Verame, Clifford de Spenser, Pascale Dinizani, and Ivan Bacciocchi. The plot In eighteenth-century France, a gallant writer is hosted by a rich and seductive marquise in her castle. Every night, the young man sneaks into his hostess's room and engages in a verbal and amorous duel with her consisting of propositions and recollections, such as when he was imprisoned for his morally reprehensible conduct. In prison, he had kept strange company in the neighboring cell, who sought to test his amorous faith with notes, food, and even young women. A game of Inchblind man's buffInch in the garden allowed him to seduce Armande, a young woman as available as she was, in his opinion, boring. The skirmish continues with attempts at seduction by the dandy, which the marquise rebuffs with ever-decreasing determination. The writer also recalls a detailed description, with figurative demonstration, of the ancient torture of stocks inflicted on him by the sadistic yet courteous prison governor, but the memory of the wedges and the description of shattering bones gives way to the less bloody but fiery summer afternoon in which the beautiful Julie, found undressed on a sofa, is convinced by the writer, with a meticulous practical test, that the physicists' theory of heat-induced weakening of virile energ