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Wild Tales (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Film score by
Gustavo Santaolalla and various artists
Released17 October 2014
GenreFilm score
Length36:05
LabelQuartet
Producer
Gustavo Santaolalla chronology
The Book of Life
(2014) 		Wild Tales
(2014) 		Making a Murderer
(2015)

Wild Tales (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack to the 2014 black comedy anthology film Wild Tales (Spanish: Relatos salvajes) directed by Damián Szifron. The album featured eleven tracks—seven of them were cues from the film score composed by Gustavo Santaolalla and a compilation of four songs heard in the film. Quartet Records released the soundtrack on 17 October 2014.

Development[edit]

Gustavo Santaolalla composed the original score for Wild Tales; his first ever Argentine film he composed.[1] Szifron wanted an original score to accompany the film due to its importance of music and sent the film's script to Santaolalla through a mutual friend. While he was supervising the film's final edit to Pedro Almodóvar, he received Santaolalla's call saying that he liked the script. During a conversation in Belgium, Santaolalla told Szifron that he had curated the music for the title sequence that would be used in the film, which he felt "more than it could be expected".[2]

The soundtrack to the film, besides accompanying Santaolalla's score, also featured other songs—"Love Theme from Flashdance", composed by Giorgio Moroder and performed by Helen St. John for the soundtrack to Flashdance (1983), Aire Lebre" by Lucien Belmond, Bobby Womack's 1968 cover of "Fly Me to the Moon" and "Titanium" (2011) by David Guetta and Sia.[3] It also featured Santaolalla's own composition from his Academy Award-winning score for Babel (2006). The soundtrack was distributed by Quartet Records which set the release on 17 October 2014 in Spain, and internationally through 17 February 2015.[4]

Reception[edit]

A critic based at the Sight and Sound magazine described the soundtrack as "equally excellent".[5] David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter described the score as "terrific spaghetti Western-flavored".[6] Gabriel Urbina of mxdwn wrote "The original score by Oscar winner Gustavo Santaolalla is understated but perfectly couches all of the film's emotional highs."[7] Alonso Duralde of TheWrap wrote that "Gustavo Santaolalla weaves together a score that feels right for each separate part while also making each passage feel like part of a whole."[8] Tom Meek of Paste described that the film's score "just feels more like a fancy, tacked on accoutrement than a cohesive piece."[9] Martin Jensen of The Film Stage called it as "a throwback, yet also totally modern".[10]

Track listing[edit]

Wild Tales (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) track listing
No.TitleArtist(s)Length
1."Relatos Salvajes" 1:52
2."Pasternak" 2:17
3."Las ratas" 3:40
4."Love Theme from Flashdance"
3:28
5."El más fuerte" 3:42
6."Bombita" 3:07
7."Aire Libre"Lucien Belmond3:57
8."La propuesta" 6:33
9."Fly Me to the Moon"Bobby Womack2:06
10."Babel Short and Dialog" 1:17
11."Titanium"David Guetta feat. Sia4:06
Total length:36:05

Accolades[edit]

List of awards and nominations for Wild Tales (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Award Category Result
CEC Awards[11][12] Best Score Nominated
Goya Awards[13] Best Original Score Nominated
Platino Awards[14][15] Best Original Music Won
Silver Condor Awards[16][17] Best Original Music Won
Sur Awards[18][19] Best Original Music Won

References[edit]

  1. ^ Roberts, Sheila (February 17, 2015). "Wild Tales Director Damian Szifron Discusses His Oscar-Nominated Film". Collider. Archived from the original on July 24, 2015. Retrieved May 31, 2024.
  2. ^ "Argentine director Damián Szifrón's Wild Tales Revels in Black Humor". Below the Line. February 20, 2015. Archived from the original on May 20, 2015. Retrieved May 31, 2024.
  3. ^ "'Wild Tales' Soundtrack Details". Film Music Reporter. December 19, 2014. Archived from the original on December 31, 2014. Retrieved May 31, 2024.
  4. ^ Santaolalla, Gustavo. "Relatos Salvajes". Quartet Records. Archived from the original on January 16, 2021. Retrieved May 31, 2024.
  5. ^ "Film of the week: Wild Tales". Sight & Sound. British Film Institute. March 27, 2015. Archived from the original on September 9, 2015. Retrieved May 31, 2024.
  6. ^ Rooney, David (May 16, 2014). "'Wild Tales' ('Relatos Salvajes'): Cannes Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on May 8, 2021. Retrieved May 31, 2024.
  7. ^ "Movie Review – 'Wild Tales'". mxdwn. February 16, 2015. Archived from the original on February 25, 2015. Retrieved May 31, 2024.
  8. ^ Duralde, Alonso (February 20, 2015). "'Wild Tales' Review: Oscar-Nominated Anthology Spins Darkly Hilarious Vignettes". TheWrap. Archived from the original on July 1, 2015. Retrieved May 31, 2024.
  9. ^ Meek, Tom (February 20, 2015). "Wild Tales". Paste. Archived from the original on January 1, 2024. Retrieved May 31, 2024.
  10. ^ Jensen, Martin (October 14, 2014). "[LFF Review] Wild Tales". The Film Stage. Archived from the original on September 26, 2020. Retrieved May 31, 2024.
  11. ^ "Nominaciones a las Medallas CEC 2014". Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos (in Spanish). Madrid, Spain. Archived from the original on May 6, 2021. Retrieved May 31, 2024.
  12. ^ "Medallas CEC 2014". Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos (in Spanish). Madrid, Spain. Archived from the original on May 6, 2021. Retrieved May 31, 2024.
  13. ^ "Wild Tales wins Goya for Best Ibero-American film". Buenos Aires Herald. February 8, 2015. Archived from the original on June 29, 2015.
  14. ^ Hopewell, John (July 18, 2015). "Damian Szifron's 'Wild Tales' Sweeps 2nd Platino Awards". Variety. Archived from the original on May 12, 2016. Retrieved May 8, 2016.
  15. ^ "Nominaciones" [Nominations]. premiosplatino.com (in Spanish). Archived from the original on July 29, 2015. Retrieved May 8, 2016.
  16. ^ "'Relatos salvajes', 'Refugiado' y 'La tercera orilla', las más nominadas para los Premios Cóndor" ['Wild Tales', 'Refugiado' and 'The Third Side of the River', the most nominated for Silver Condor Awards] (in Spanish). Télam. March 11, 2015. Archived from the original on January 28, 2021. Retrieved January 20, 2021.
  17. ^ "'Refugiado' y 'Relatos salvajes' arrasan en los Cóndor de plata" ['Wild Tales' and 'Refugiado' nailed it at the Silver Condor Awards]. Diario de Navarra (in Spanish). June 23, 2015. Archived from the original on January 28, 2021. Retrieved January 20, 2021.
  18. ^ "Relatos Salvajes arrasó con las nominaciones a los Premios Sur" [Wild Tales nailed it with nominations to the Sur Awards]. La Nación (in Spanish). September 30, 2014. Archived from the original on December 23, 2014.
  19. ^ "Todos los ganadores de los premios Sur 2014" [All the winners of the 2014 Sur Awards]. La Nación (in Spanish). December 3, 2014. Archived from the original on June 20, 2015. Retrieved January 21, 2021.
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