I watched Young Adult on a recent flight, Jason Reitman's follow-up to Up In The Air, and as silly as i thought the film was, I enjoyed the score by Rolfe Kent.
I had never heard of the British composer before, and I kept thinking that the music was actually done by Jun Miyake who figured so prominently in Pina, Wim Wenders beautiful love letter to the German choreographer. At other times, I thought that the music was by Jon Brion, who scored Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Then I saw Ken Ishii was the sound mixer, and I wondered if this was the Japanese electronic mastermind who does the Tokyo Fashion Fuse which my old friend and colleague Alastair Himmer is doing frequently in Tokyo.
Well I do not know if Ishii is the same Ishii, but Rolfe Kent was the reason I sat through gorgeous Charlize Theron's painful but silly take on a Minneapolis author smitten with her high school sweetheart as envisioned by Diablo Cody.
I do know that this is getting more and more twisted as the moments pass, that I would never recommend the film, but that I loved some of the music, even the Teenage Fanclub/Dinosaur Jr. alt-rock 90's music I would never have listened to back then.
