[Thor Joachim Haga]

And THERE it is — the one score that almost matches AMERICAN HISTORY X for me: BENEDETTA. It was my favourite film of 2022 (it was a 2022 film in Norway) AND my favourite score of everything that came out in 2021. I’m just a sucker for those religioso choral parts.

ELLE was a brilliant film – again the number one film for me in 2017 (although I saw it in Cannes in 2016 already, where it premiered – with Verhoeven, Huppert etc. present). And again a fine score, I love how Dudley tapped into those icy Goldsmith-ian/BASIC INSTINCT-like colours for this, like you point out.

BLACK BOOK is pretty good too, but neither film nor score reaches those levels for me.