The Sunday Times Interview with "Bel Ami" Composer

Lakshman Joseph de Saram gets top billing for writing the music for Bel Ami, one of the ‘most eagerly anticipated movies for 2012.’

Bel Ami music score, screenplay, and Joseph de Saram’s Bel Ami notebook, with the film themes.

sundaytimes.lk BERLIN is where Lakshman Joseph de Saram should have been on Friday, February 16 – to attend the world premiere of the Hollywood movie “Bel Ami”, for which he wrote the music. This was a red carpet event, at the Berlin International Film Festival, with some of the biggest names in cinema in attendance. Instead, the Sri Lankan musician and composer spent the day in Colombo, in his usual way – with his family, among fellow musicians and colleagues, including members of The Chamber Music Society of Colombo, of which he is founder and music director. 
There are two visits to London, the first to meet the film’s two directors, Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod, to discuss “the tone” the music should take. The second visit is to attend the recording sessions of Joseph de Saram’s film score. The orchestra is assembled at Angel Studios and is composed of members of leading British orchestras. Both experiences – meeting the directors, meeting the musicians playing his music – are cruel tests of nerve. The completed, much revised, score is ready by December 2010. 

‘Bel Ami’ producer Uberto Pasolini had full confidence in local composer
You worked with Mr. Lakshman Joseph de Saram on the film “Machan”, a contemporary story, a comedy, set largely in Sri Lanka. The worlds of Machan and Bel Ami could not be more different. What gave you the confidence that Mr. Joseph de Saram would deliver a score for Bel Ami to your satisfaction? 
Lakshman’s music is marked by an extraordinary sensitivity to the emotions of the characters it accompanies, and I knew he would be able to help the tortured souls of Bel Ami just as successfully as he had done with the troubled lives of the Sri Lankan national handball team. His great knowledge of classical music was also going to be vital in strengthening the period atmosphere.

Soundtrack is now available for pre-order:release date of March 20th 


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