Women Talking (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Hildur Guðnadóttir

• 1 Work Of Ghosts (From "Women Talking" Soundtrack) 00:24
• 2 Speak Up (From "Women Talking" Soundtrack) 03:15
• 3 Doomsday (From "Women Talking" Soundtrack) 00:54
• 4 Not All Men (From "Women Talking" Soundtrack) 03:27
• 5 Pros and Cons (From "Women Talking" Soundtrack) 01:21
• 6 Always (From "Women Talking" Soundtrack) 02:42
• 7 I Saw Him (From "Women Talking" Soundtrack) 00:19
• 8 He's Here (From "Women Talking" Soundtrack) 03:30
• 9 Teeth (From "Women Talking" Soundtrack) 00:20
• 10 Peace Of God (From "Women Talking" Soundtrack) 02:15
• 11 Jumping (From "Women Talking" Soundtrack) 01:30
• 12 Boys (From "Women Talking" Soundtrack) 02:25
• 13 Nettie (From "Women Talking" Soundtrack) 00:19
• 14 Leaving (From "Women Talking" Soundtrack) 03:39
• Total Runtime 26:20

Info for Women Talking (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Women Talking is a highly emotive and inspiring story, based on the best-selling novel by Miriam Toews, that follows a group of women from an isolated religious community who grapple with reconciling their reality with their faith. Hildur Guðnadóttir’s affecting, ruminative score captures the film’s emotional complexity. Rousing guitar-led motifs underpin the folk-influenced score, punctuated by unsettling percussion and mournful strings.

Based on the novel by Miriam Toews, writer/director Sarah Polley’s new narrative Women Talking considers how a group of women can move forward after the shocking betrayal and abuse by men in their isolated religious community. The backstory of the novel and subsequent film, which is set in 2010, mirrors horrific true events that took place at a Mennonite colony in Bolivia. For over four years, nine men secretly sedated over a hundred girls and women, raping them while they were unconscious. The film is not a violent one, however. Polley wanted the violence to only be reflected in short glimpses of the aftermath, focusing instead on the community of women coming together to build a better world for their children, each other, and themselves. Toews’ book raised questions within her about faith, forgiveness, community, and self-determination, she said. “I wanted to feel in every frame the endless potential and possibility contained in a conversation about how to remake a broken world.” Bringing this conversation to life is an exceptional ensemble cast that includes Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Judith Ivy, and Frances McDormand.

The mood and tone in Women Talking are enhanced with the contribution of an organic, hopeful score by Academy-award-winning composer Hildur Guðnadóttir. Guðnadóttir has had a very successful 2022, with her scores for Todd Field’s Tár and Sarah Polley’s film both currently in Oscar contention. The Credits spoke to the composer about her deeply personal score for Women Talking, a film that offered her the first opportunity to work with a female director.

Hildur Guðnadóttir

Hildur Guðnadóttir
Academy Award winning Hildur Guðnadóttir is an Icelandic composer, cellist, and singer who has been manifesting herself at the forefront of experimental pop and contemporary music. In her solo works she draws out a broad spectrum of sounds from her instrument, ranging from intimate simplicity to huge soundscapes. Her work for Film and Television includes Sicario: Day of the Soldado, Mary Magdalene, ​Tom of Finland, Journey’s End and 20 episodes of the Icelandic TV series Trapped. In addition, her body of work includes scores for films such as Joker, for which she won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe award for Best Original Score. As well as the critically acclaimed HBO series Chernobyl, for which she received a Primetime EMMY award and a GRAMMY Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media.

Gudnadóttir began playing cello as a child, entered the Reykjavík Music Academy and then moved on to musical studies/​composition and new media at the Iceland Academy of the Arts and Universität der Künste Berlin. Hildur has released four critically acclaimed solo albums: Mount A (2006), Without Sinking (2009), Leyfðu Ljósinu (2012) and Saman (2014).

She has composed music for theatre, dance performances and films. The Icelandic Symphony Orchestra, Icelandic National Theatre, Tate Modern, The British Film Institute, The Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm and Gothenburg National Theatre are amongst the institutions that have commissioned new works by Hildur. She was nominated for the Nordic Music Council Prize as composer of the year 2014.

Among others Hildur has performed live and recorded music with Skúli Sverrisson, Jóhann Jóhannsson, múm, Sunn O))), Pan Sonic, Hauschka, Wildbirds & Peacedrums, Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Sylvian, The Knife, Fever Ray and Throbbing Gristle.

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