Music?


What is the song/music playing in the scene where the actress says she's going to teach him how to dance?

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I'm pretty sure it's the Django Reinhardt tune, "Nuages." I'm not 100%. I know "Nuages" plays during that scene at some point.

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Thank you for your response. I know later there's some Django as there's quite a bit of it during the film. I know I should have been more specific. It's at the very beginning of the scene and it's some French lady singing. It's too bad they don't list all the music!

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I haven't seen this movie yet (although I plan to now that it's on DVD)but I am going to take a wild guess and say that it's probably Edith Piaf.

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what about the music france is playing on the piano and his father says that this music is the soundtrack for his life?

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moonlight sonata by beethoven i think

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Is that the same song that Jean Bonnet (Kippelstein) plays in Au Revoir Les Enfants (another film by Louis Malle)?

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No. I didn't recognize the piece Bonnet played in Au Revoir Les Enfants, but it wasn't Moonlight Sonata. Earlier in this film, though, France is practicing playing a different section of Moonlight Sonata (third movement). I think it's the scene where Lucien comes to pick up his suit.

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So, you're guessing about a piece of music in a film you've never seen?

It 'aint Piaf.

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It's "Mademoiselle Swing" by Irène de Trébert.

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what about the flute music at the end?

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This was a piece of Bengali flute music that Malle recorded while making his documentary L'Inde Fantome. I don't think this piece made it into the documentary, but he and his sound man (Jean-Claude Laureux?) tracked it down to use in Lacombe Lucien.

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