M83: My Tears Becoming a Sea - Rust and Bone

A song that's gained a renewed life after its appearance in the UK trailer for the film Rust and Bone.

My Tears are becoming a sea featured on the M83 album Hurry Up, We're Dreaming, and album that's secured a place as one of the classic albums of the last few years.

The film debuted at Cannes earlier this year, and while not a winner of the palme d'or, it gota positive critical reaction, and more recently won the Best Film award at the BFI London Film festival.

Some suggest the film could earn Marion Cotillard her second Oscar award.

The soundtrack for the flim was composed by Alexandre Desplat, who previously worked on Cotillard's earlier film Coco Before Chanel, and with Rust and Bone director Jacques Audiard on the films A Prophet, A Self Made Hero, Read My Lips and The Beat That My Heart Skipped.

Desplat's film soundtrack career also included work on Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Queen, Twilight: New Moon and both Harry Potter and the Deathley Hallows movies. He's been nominated for an Oscar four times and won two César awards as well as a Golden Globe and a Bafta.

New: Cinémoi French cinema channel

I've taken out a subscription to the Cinemoi French film channel that is on cable and Sky in the UK, which looks pretty promising.

Obviously there is a tremendous amount of French cinema being shown, many of which passed me by on their initial release, as well as a lot of classics as well.

Highlights so far? Probably L'armée du crime, although Immortal, Arsene Lupin and Fair Play were all pretty excellent.

Looking forward to getting to see more of this kind of thing. Normally you would have to be watching the programme of cinemas like the GFT pretty closely, spend several days watching movies non-stop during the French Film Festival or have deep pockets at the 'World Cinema' section of HMV (not that they actually have that much) to get to see this kind of cinema.

Also looking forward to see some of the old films that they've been screening. Les Diaboliques is on the menu in the next few days, as is The Wages of Fear. Again, it saves tracking down DVDs.

However, one interesting thing that they are also doing is showing some French music videos between films. OK, so I have only seen a couple so far, both pretty obvious - Vanessa Paradis and Phoenix - but its a great start and hopefully a platform for more French acts to get the exposure in the UK that they don't get elsewhere.

So today's video is one by Phoenix, giving us the excuse to finally use something by one of the biggest French acts around.


PHOENIX - Lisztomania
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