18/11/2002

The third edition of the International Festival of Music and Cinema, organized by the city of Auxerre, concluded on November 17th, after four days of homage to cinema sound tracks and their composers.
This year’s festival honored Serb-Croatian composer Goran Bregovic (Time of the Gypsies, Arizona Dream, Underground), who was present with his Orchestra for Weddings and Funerals, as well as Jean-Claude Petit (Jean de Fiorette, Cyrano de Bergerac) and Claude Bolling (Borsalino), who gave live performances of the soundtracks they wrote during the showing of their relative films.
Goran Bregovic and Claude Bolling also gave three lectures to the public, during which they explained their methods of composing. Director Bertrand Tavernier also spoke about his choice of music for Clean Slate and Capitan Conan.
Seven films competed during the festival, including A Loving Father with Gérard and Guillaume Depardieu, Nearest to Heaven with Catherine Deneuve, and 24 Hours in the Life of a Woman by Laurent Bouthnik.
Vera Belmont presided over the jury that decided to award the Grand Prize to composers Valmont and Simon Cloquet for the soundtrack of Manon Briand’s film, Chaos and Desire.

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(Translated from French)