The soundtrack for Dutch/Belgium/Italian co-production "Porselein" (Porcelain), a psychological drama by Jenneke Boeijink, recorded with cellist Francesco Guerri and using a motif from Henry Purcell's "The Fairy Queen", the album release including 12 additional tracks; powerful, emotional and passionate music of great tension and brilliant performances from Guerri.
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2020 Country: Netherlands Packaging: Digipack Recorded by the artist, in JanuaryÐJune 2019. Cello recorded at Duna Studio Russi, in Ravenna, Italy, in February 2019, by Andrea Scardovi. The movie Porcelain is directed by Jenneke Boeijink Written by Jenneke Boeijink and Thibaud Delpeut Produced by New Amsterdam Film Company Co-produced by Verdeoro and Wrongmen.
"The soundtrack for Dutch/Belgium/Italian co-production Porselein (Porcelain), a psycho- logical drama by Jenneke Boeijink. Besides the music from the film, the album contains 12 extra outtakes. It's released on cd and as download/ stream on March 1st 2020.
Rutger Zuydervelt (who mostly works under his pseudonym Machinefabriek) regularly works for film, though mostly for documentaries. Porcelain is his second feature film score, after the Canadian mystery drama The Cold And the Quiet.
A common modus operandi for Zuydervelt is to collaborate with instrumentalists by using recordings of their improvisations and sculpt them into new pieces. This way of working was used for Porcelain as well, with the amazing Italian cellist Francesco Guerri adding his magic to this score. Another important presence on the album is (a sample from) Henry Purcell's The Fairy Queen, which functions as a 'leitmotif' throughout the film. The piece had a big influence on director Boeijink while she was writing the movie, and it blends perfectly with Zuydervelt electronics and Guerri's cello. The understated, brooding drama enhances the tone of the movie perfectly.
Film Synopsis
The lives of Anna, Paul and their young son Thomas look perfect. But when Thomas bites one of his friends at school, the first cracks appear in the glossy exterior of this 'perfect' life. It marks the start of a long, frustrating search for the cause of their son's aggression: a process that mercilessly exposes the frailties they each carefully hide and prompts the parents to take desperate measures - even calling in the help of an almost complete stranger. Jenneke Boeijink's fiction feature debut builds the tension painstakingly from the start; from the very first moment the camera zooms in from high above Rotterdam's multi-storey housing to this family's house. The psychological drama carried by actress Laura de Boer, Flemish actor Tom Vermeir and young Neathan van der Gronden demonstrates just how fragile happiness can be."