[Malte Müller]

Not sure if I remember right but didn’t the French Nouvelle Vague at first avoided actual film score with using diagetic music only? Somehow they changed their mind later on then resulting in many Delerure classics of course.

I used to hold the opinion that these films needed music, because I think music in film is so important. But over the years, I’ve found the approach refreshing. Often results in more ambigous storytelling.

Just as much as I love film musc there are type of music that would be “watered down” with a too traditional score. A bit of the cliche that music “manipulates” too much (of course what the film shows is already manipulation by itself, too). I am no expert of Haneke but I for example cannot imagine any score to BENNY’S VIDEO.

But often I music in documentaries misplaced and overused, especially these historic ones dramatizing everything with re-acting scenes.