Le Hasard et la Violence

Le Pop Club Records presents a soundtrack for the 1974 movie Le Hasard et la Violence directed by Philip Labro and composed by Michel Colombier, limited edition Vinyl

Le Pop Club Records presents a soundtrack for the 1974 movie Le Hasard et la Violence directed by Philip Labro and composed by Michel Colombier, limited edition Vinyl

The soundtrack is available on october 7th, 2022

“Le Hasard et la Violence” is a strange Franco-Italian film directed by Philippe Labro in 1974 in collaboration with Jacques Lanzmann on the script. It was a time of thesis films on ultra-violence such as Sam Peckinpah’s “Straw Dogs” (1971), Stanley Kubrick’s “Clockwork Orange” (1971) and John Boorman’s “Deliverance” (1972). Labro’s feature film differs from those of his American counterparts in that it is almost dreamlike and has a soft psychedelic quality.

A sort of lysergic atmosphere that has more to do with Castel’s idea of an LSD trip than with Californian counterculture.
There is a mid-life crisis in this story of criminologist Laurent Berman (Yves Montand), on holiday on the French Riviera to write an essay on violence. He is both the victim of an assault and of his love for Constance Weber (Katherine Ross), a young doctor who awakens the midday demon in him.

Within this cinematic paradigm, Labro was struck by a stroke of genius when he asked Michel Colombier to compose the music for his film.
Michel Colombier, it should be remembered, is a classically trained musician, having passed through the Paris Conservatory of Music.
We owe it to Michel Magne to have spotted him and we understand why, knowing the whimsical and at the same time serious spirit of the father of the soundtrack of “Tontons Flingueurs”.

Michel Colombier’s music for “Chance and Violence” reflects his career: from Gainsbourg to the Beach Boys, via Paul Williams (aka “Swan” in Brian de Palma’s “Phantom of the Paradise”). A soundtrack that moves from neo-classical to contemporary, via groovy pop and slow music. Not to mention the film’s theme, a killer ballad with the immortal lyric, “we all need love”. Which brings us back to a passage in the film where Yves Montand quotes Charles Baudelaire’s “What’s boring about love is that it’s a crime where you can’t do without an accomplice”.

There is a sort of Colombier romanticism in this song performed by Drupi (known in France for his lachrymal ‘Vado Via’), which can be found in ‘Tears in the Morning’, released on the Beach Boys’ ‘Sunflowers’ album in 1970. Let’s forget our post-post modern irony, which is no substitute for intelligence, and let ourselves be caught up in the emotional power of this soundtrack.

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