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Capote is a strange film, not a biopic but a retelling of one
period of Truman Capote's life: the time when he wrote
In
Cold Blood.
But it's not that either, not exactly. Because it's also about the
killers, and Capote's relationship with them, and with the people in
his own life, and the way that creating his one great work would
destroy him. So in a way it's about Capote's life, or at least what
that life was to become.
So perhaps it's appropriate that Capote - The Album is
something other than a traditional movie soundtrack. We're used to
collections of songs and incidental music. We're even used to albums
that combine the music with dialogue, which I first encountered with
the soundtrack to Robert Altman's M*A*S*H. But this may be a
first: an album that combines the music from the film with the subject
of that film reading from the book whose writing is depicted in that
film. And somewhat in the way that the movie of Capote
recreates some of the look and the structure of In Cold
Blood, the album brings together the cinematic and the real life
Truman. Which one is more compelling and more penetrable I leave to
the reader.
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