Customer Reviews

Rachel Getting Married

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There are some interesting pieces of music in this movie that I was very interested in. Unfortunately, the producers failed to include the most interesting and beautiful piece of music from the whole film on this soundtrack which of course was the violin piece used in the ending credits. One of the most haunting and enchanting violin pieces I've ever heard. Shame and shameful that they didn't as that instrumental alone made this soundtrack worth buying and without it, well, it isn't. Maybe they are planning on including it in a movie score release? One can only hope, though it would seem more appropriate included here.

It took me two viewings of "Rachel Getting Married" to decide whether I liked the soundtrack, and on the second viewing I got to like parts of it very much. But by far the most beautiful piece was the long violin piece played during the final credits. And it's not on the soundtrack! That's insane. Now I will have to go research it to see if I can find it somewhere else.

I just wish Tenor Saw's 'Golden Hen' and Allen Toussaint's 'Mother in Law' were included. 'Mother in Law' is heard near end and througout I think and 'Golden Hen' the DJ drops right after the short snippet of the 'Ninth Ward Blues' and before the 'In My Soul' and it plays for a long time and I love reggae so I was sad to see that one not make it in addtion to the Sister Carol East song.

I fell in love with the music from this movie - intro to some really great artists and can be listened to by all ages

I didn't take to this soundtrack at first, but the more I listened to it the more i find new reasons to love it. This soundtrack has the perfect amount of eclecticness that I love about soundtracks. It's definitely worth purchasing.

this album carried the plot so well. I love almost every single song and listen to it often and dont tire of it. best compilation. this is a def must buy!

I just watched this movie, and I thought the music was fantastic. Different. Eclectic. And, the moods of pieces were perfectly suited the tone of the movie. Listening to this soundtrack would be like watching the movie again - which could be good or bad, depending on your feelings on the movie. Personally, I can't wait to get the soundtrack.

Rachel Getting Married is a gritty, adult drama directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Anne Hathaway in a breakout role which is tipped for Oscar success in 2009. Shot in faux-documentary style, Hathaway stars as Kym, a troubled, self-absorbed young woman who has been in and out from rehab for the past 10 years, who returns home for the weekend for her sister Rachel (Rosemarie DeWitt)'s wedding, causing long-standing family tensions to rise to the surface. The film, which also stars Bill Irwin and Debra Winger, has original music from two very diverse sources: Louisiana-born jazz saxophonist Donald Harrison Jr., who is a contemporary of Terence Blanchard, and New York-based Palestinian musician Zafer Tawil, who is a virtuoso on various ethnic string instruments (including the oud and the qanun), and is a `master of Arabic percussion'. Tawil's cues include the simple solo violin "Wedding Waltz", the slightly more exotic "Kym's Homecoming", and the peculiar "Ethan's Theme", which has a humming/groaning vocal effect underneath all the unfocused plucking. Harrison's contribution is the "Rachel Loves Sidney" track and its reprise, a slightly funkier and upbeat jazz/mambo piece which, naturally, features Harrison on solo trumpet. The rest of the album is padded out with various indie rock and jazz pieces, including actor Tunde Adebimpe's unadorned version of Neil Young's "Unknown Legend", a very bizarre version of "Here Comes the Bride" for electric guitar and drum kit, and a couple of tracks by Robyn Hitchcock, who was the subject of a Demme documentary in 1998. The odd thing about the entire album is that much of it seems to have been thrown together on the fly - Tawil's pieces especially include a lot of noticeable background room ambiences - chairs creaking, and so on - which lend it a slightly amateurish air which is quite disappointing for a Demme production. It's really quite a dull album, with very little that will be of real interest to score fans, unless you're crazy about oud solos.

I was looking for the DVD and did not notice this was the CD of the movie soundtrack instead. Still unopened with egg on my face! I wish Amazon didn't list CD's on same page as DVD's.

Dr. Paul