film noir

Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Broadcasting House programme, he said the "list of imagined assassination methods" on his life "reads like a film noir".

His films were often filled with recurrent characters and motifs, and blended film noir darkness, suspense and ensemble casts.

Desplat introduces his main theme, a melancholy, bluesy tune that he wanted to evoke both eerie film noir and the “tragic story of the heritage of slavery.”

But even that doesn’t seem fitting for works that nod to centuries-old chant music and film noir.

A radical restaging of Hollywood film noir musical ‘Sunset Boulevard’ was the big winner on Sunday at the London stage Olivier Awards.