Did anyone else find the music distracting?

did you sprinkle any garnish on or was it just plain?


http://www.last.fm/music/Disuse

Thanks, I couldn't find any info on it.

Securing new songs seems like a lot of effort and expense (rights issues, royalties, soundtrack remixing) for such a limited run. Plus, the mix of French dialogue with English songs seemed kind of bizarre to me. Not unpleasant, just strange.

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The music was very distracting to me too, from the very first piece, a jazzy song I think. But it reminded me right away of a film I saw years ago, about a Frenchman's real-life friendship with jazzman Bud Powell. The film was 'Round Midnight. The Frenchman was played by François Cluzet, same actor who played Alex Beck. Watching Tell No One tonight, I thought it was very strange to have this overt jazz tune, right at the beginning of the film. It reminded me of something with Cluzet but I couldn't put my finger on it right away. Then the other music choices kept getting more in the way, too in-your-face. Tonight, I didn't remember for sure that it was Cluzet who'd played in 'Round Midnight, I just had a sort of feeling of déjà vu.

I checked this out after seeing Tell No One, and sure enough, Cluzet is the one who also played in 'Round Midnight. I thought that Cluzet must be a jazz freak and that the director himself may have associated Cluzet with jazz music, so thought he'd turn out a good movie by overdoing the music loved by his main actor.
I think Cluzet is known in French film world as a tortured character, depressive at times, etc. That may be why they chose him as main character, in spite of age difference with his wife in the movie. (Although a 15 year age difference doesn't seem unnatural to French people in general. But then, they should have cut the kissing kids scenes...)
Another thing that linked all this to choosing Cluzet for the part (maybe) was that he has a son with actress Marie Trintignant, who was killed by her then partner in 2003 I think. Her partner beat her to death while she was on the set of a movie directed by her mother Nadine Trintignant (her father is Jean-Louis Trintignant.) François Cluzet certainly has known that kind of pain and could portray it in this movie, perhaps as no one could. Sorry if I mixed 2 questions in one reply.

I don't think having American songs in a French film is all that unusually. France has been americanised/anglicised to some extent, and many French would be quite familiar with some of these songs. For my part, I thought the songs worked well as a way to contrast the original soundtrack, which I enjoyed too.

She's as nervous as a very small nun on a penguin shoot