Infinity: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [Soundtrack]

Bruce Broughton | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 15, 1996)
• Original Release Date: October 4, 1996
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Intrada Records
• ASIN: B000000O76
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #479,474 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Prologue

2. Arline And The Red Dress

3. 1939

4. A Swelling

5. Typhoid?

6. 1941

7. Imaginary Roomate

8. Moving To Albuquerque

9. Richard And Arline

10. Indian Dwellings

11. A Nightmare Diagram

12. Arline's Death

13. The Trip home

14. Exploding The Bomb

15. The Dress (Epilogue)

Customer Reviews

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Music as catalyst in a movie's impressions, August 23, 1998

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This review is from: Infinity: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Audio CD)

Richard Feynman was one of the most brilliant, attractive men of this century : an impression I have of him from his books and the things I've read about him. "Infinity" covers an eventful decade in the 1930's and 40's when he met, married,and lost Arline, to tuberculosis. During that decade, he was finishing his education, then working for the government - on the Bomb - in New Mexico, where Arline died.

Matthew Broderick wrote and directed this film, and plays Feynman, and Patricia Arquette is Arline. They're both excellent. The material is necessarily poignant, but the acting is so right, almost low-key, that it never cloys. The music is right too; the composer must have been very close to Broderick's goals for the atmosphere he wanted. There are some jazzy war-years themes that bring that time, the way that time must have felt, to reality. But it's the little piano theme, associated with Arline, her prettiness, her femininity, that wins you and stays with you. And possibly moves you to tears.