This wartime family saga deserved the touch of a composer who could suggest period and geography amid an emotional tale. The Frenchman Maurice Jarre has endlessly proven an affinity with all these qualities (Dr Zhivago perhaps crowning most achievements). Through the latter decades of the 20th century, much of his music seemed swamped by electronic intrusion. Here, finally, was a movie that ...
There is a French and Saunders sketch, in which the duo affectionately but accurately mock the often doomed attempts of opera singers to sing pop. Their rendition of an overblown operatic version of Kylie Minogue's "I Should be so Lucky" should be shown to any singer thinking of "crossing over". Plácido Domingo has one of the greatest tenor voices of the century, which certainly shows no sign of ...