Rendez-vous with… Alexandre Desplat & Guillermo del Toro

Hosted by Stéphane Lerouge, this dialogue between composer and filmmaker will take us behind the scenes of musical creation, and plunge us into the heart of the workings of an essential pairing in contemporary cinema.

They will explain why music is an essential dimension of a cinematographic work, and why the composer is one of a film’s auteurs. They will also explain how music finds equivalents for materials such as water, for The Shape of Water in 2017, or wood for Pinocchio in 2022, and how music can reveal the human side of monsters with Frankenstein, scheduled for release in autumn 2025.

Alexandre Desplat scored two films in Competition this year, Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme and Tarik Saleh’s Eagles of the Republic.