So Close: Deciphering a Nostalgic Soundtrack

So Close: Deciphering a Nostalgic Soundtrack

The film by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano is being shown again this evening on TMC.

Like these adults in the midst of a late adolescent crisis, the film’s soundtrack So Closereleased fifteen years ago, illustrates a period of transition in a life.

The album includes a melting pot of hits from the 1980s and 1990s. Titles like “Let’s All Chant” (The Michael Zager Band) Or “For Once in My Life” (Stevie Wonder) kitsch to perfection remind us of the era of parties where it was so easy to pick up the girl of your choice with the slow of the moment. Nostalgia for a period of life very well represented in the scene where Vincent Elbaz crashes a young girl’s birthday party “teenager” and becomes the king of dance floor the time of a wild disco (“Let’s All Chant”) before crying over this lost youth to the sound of ““Say it ain’t so”, Joe (Murray Head).

So close becomes much more than a film about family: thanks to this soundtrack, it also addresses the fear of growing old, of seeing childhood dreams disappear and the fear of becoming an adult while facing new responsibilities.

Of Jamiroquai has Dusty Springfield Passing by Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons everything is there to reinforce this feeling of playing the tightrope walker between the farewell to our twenties and the full force of our thirties. The soundtrack of So close distills between disco and pop this sweet nostalgia which makes us want to take out all our old 45s from our boxes.

Second collaboration ofOmar Sy and the director duo Olivier Nakache And Eric Toledano After our happy days (and before Untouchable), with also Vincent Elbaz, Isabelle Carre, François-Xavier Demaison, Josephine of Meaux And Audrey Dana, So close is to be (re)discovered this evening on TMC at 9:25 p.m.

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