The One I Love

It’s been a great year for film music. I say that as someone who had to endure the laughably dated qualities of Alberto Iglesias’ Exodus: Gods and Kings and had to swallow the pill that is Howard Shore‘s latter days Middle-earth music. But it has been a great year. Clint Mansell gave us haunting, complex soundscapes in Noah, the …

A conflicting romantic, mumblecore-like, comedy, with a frequently stirring mystery and flashes  of Twilight Zone, wound around a Charlie Kaufman-like mystery-box, Charlie McDowell’s debut, The One I Love, turns expectations upside down, inside out, and then asks its audience it make sense out of it.When the camera first introduces Ethan (Mark Duplass) and Sophie (Elisabeth …