Music composed by   Francis Lai
 
2CD Compilation released on January 3, 2011, by Play Time, France. With 24-page booklet

Description:
«Francis Lai is much more than a composer : He is my double with notes». It's with these words that Claude Lelouch talks about his musicial bond, with the man he met in 1965 with Pierre Barouh. The young filmmaker gave the chance of a lifetime to the composer, by involving him in the adventure of « Un Homme et Une Femme » (A Man And A Woman). The rest is history : international success, Palme d'Or at Cannes and plenty of covers, from Frank Sinatra to Ella Fitzgerald. Consequently, the delicate melodies of Francis Lai will be forever associated to the sentimental cinema according to Claude Lelouch. True path to long term, their complicity is one of the most successful of French cinema : thirty-one movies in forty-five years, a symphony of life scale of which every movie would be one of the movements : from Comedy (Tout ça Pour ça) to Thriller (Le Chat Et La Souris), through the big frescoes with crossed fates (Les Uns Et Les Autres). For an unique collaboration, we needed a large box : This double CD brings together for the first time all the main thèmes of Claude Lelouch's movies set to music by Francis Lai, from « Un Homme Et Une Femme »to recent « Ces Amours-là », released in September 2010. A true musical journey that ressurects the great emotions of cinema and brings together emblematic performers of Francis Lai : Johnny Hallyday (L'aventure C'est L'aventure), Charles Aznavour (Edith Et Marcel), Patricia Kaas (Les Misérables) without forgetting of course Nicole Croisille / Pierre Barouh. In two and half hours of music, a musical journey into the world of a refined composer, who according to Claude Lelouch « is the second father of all my films ».