Hollywood actor teams up with Bristol band to cover George Gershwin's Summertime for Mexican movie soundtrack
Massive Attack have collaborated with actor Scarlett Johansson on the soundtrack to a forthcoming Mexican thriller. Dias de Gracia (Days of Grace), directed by Everardo Gout, also features original music by Atticus Ross, Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, and Shigeru Umebayashi.
Dias de Gracia is a tale of murder and kidnapping split across three separate storylines, with different composers scoring each narrative thread. Each segment takes place during a different World Cup final, in 2002, 2006 and 2010.
Bad Seeds Cave and Ellis scored the 2002 story after Gout heard their work on The Proposition and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. "They created a piece that superbly integrates sounds, noises, urban and animal backgrounds, that could have only been composed by them," he said.
Ross, who won an Oscar in February for his work with Trent Reznor on The Social Network score, composed the soundtrack for the 2006 story. "He worked on the feeling of fear for the most part," Gout said, "something more visceral, more primal."
Umebayashi, a Japanese composer who has worked with Wong Kar-wai, wrote the "quiet and sophisticated" music for the 2010 story.
The film also uses several versions of George Gershwin's jazz classic, Summertime, as performed by Janis Joplin and Nina Simone. The most unusual rendition is the latest one: a revisiting of the standard by Johansson and Bristol's Massive Attack. Johansson, who does not appear in the film, released an album of Tom Waits covers in 2008, and collaborated with Pete Yorn in 2009.
Dias de Gracia premiered this week at the Cannes film festival. It was a "harbinger of [future] cult-film status", according to Variety, who hailed its "intense, bass-heavy score".
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