Lovely, whimsical score - in film order, April 8, 2004

By	James Luckard (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews

The music gently massages each scene, conveying the emotions at the core without bothering to hit every action onscreen like cartoon mickey-mousing. Instead, the music finds something deeper and mines it deftly and beautifully.

Like the other poster, my only problem with the album is that the music is totally out of order. To help any other fans out there, here's the correct film order, matched up exactly to my DVD of the film.

1, 3, 15, 4, 2, 6, 5, 8, 7, 17, 11, 9, 20, 10, 13 (0-1:48), 22, 13 (1:48-end), 12, 14, 16, 19, 21, 18, 15, 11, 9, 11

Also, there's a single piece not written for the film, "Comptine d'Un Autre Été: L'Apres Midi," which is track 4 on the Amelie album. I assume most people buying Good bye Lenin will already have Amelie, so sticking it in the mix should be easy. That track goes between tracks 14 and 16, for when the family drive to The Dacha, which is my title for the track.

You'll notice tracks 15, 11 and 9 repeat at the end, those are the end credits. Finally, track 23 is not actually in the film, but I stuck it on the end of my mix CD.

Hope this helps, I know I'd have been really glad to find this info a few weeks ago.

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