The Other Side of the Wind

The Other Side of the Wind (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack to the 2018 film of the same name. It is composed by Michel Legrand whose score being the final one to be released after his death on January 26, 2019. La-La Land Records published the score on November 5, 2018. Background The Other Side of the Wind marked Legrand's second collaboration with the late-American filmmaker Orson Welles, 44 years after scoring F for Fake (1974). Although he worked on that film, for more than a year, Welles told Legrand on another possible collaboration which the latter did not hear about that for forty years, but felt that the very subject of the film, touched him, which was the idea of the passage of time and the renewal of inspiration. Since the narrative consists of a film-within-a-film construction, Legrand felt it challenging to score several layers in the story, and the film's turbulent production for over forty years, resulting in being the film with the longest production time. Welles' annotated script contained notes which had "mentions of jazz score" and several kinds of music at a party, according to producer Filip Jan Rymsza who realized that this could be used as a dramatic score. Since Legrand had hoped to score the film long ago, he enthusiastically accepted the offer, spending two months to create a score beginning January 2018, that encompass every aspect of the film: music for the party, film within a film and dramatic underscore for the film itself. Like the film, the music itself is unconventional, where Legrand broke the narrative into chapters of a novel and had written nearly two hours of music.