But the simple truth is that Suspiria is among the best works we have seen and listened to this year. However good would both the film and the score have been, the debut soundtrack from indie rock genius Thom Yorke could not go unnoticed. And here is a last advice in the wise words of Colin who, in the end of the day, is not such an anus – ‘Fuck them.’ So I bet you, in your adult lives, have conceived Christmas and New Year’s Eve a bit as if it was the Battle of Hastings, in which case, don’t look further, this score is exactly what you need to listen to towards the end of your 4-hour drive to see your family a few hours before the New Year begins. Oh, yes, the film is set on New Year’s Eve, but the holiday season is always the time when you see your estranged brother, your ex-husband, your racist uncles who will tell you all about the benefits of Brexit – there are at least five of them I can think about right now. Here, Mansell strikes – I mean scores – quite unexpectedly by juxtaposing Wheatley’s trials and tribulations of an average modern family in all its patheticness with his uplifting ancient-folk-flavoured compositions. Very loosely based on Shakespeare’s Coriolanus – its working title was Colin, You Anus, which not only is a masterful pun but draws the parallel between the film’s main character and Shakespeare’s arsehole antihero – Happy New Year, Colin Burstead marks the second collaboration between Ben Wheatley and Clint Mansell after the latter wrote the unsettling, heterogeneous score for the 2015 jet-black social satire High-Rise. Happy New Year, Colin Burstead (Clint Mansell)
Neil Maskell in Happy New Year, Colin Burstead (directed by Ben Wheatley, score by Clint Mansell).
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