![]() ![]() While it may lack the initial punch of Tim Eriksen's "I Wish My Baby Was Born" or either of the shape-note tunes provided by the Sacred Harp Singers at Liberty Church, Burnett clusters composer Gabriel Yared's understated score at the end of the record, delegating it as filler, which is unfair, as its quiet power mirrors the songs as well as the characters. Unfortunately, the orchestral work for the film is hastily assembled as if it were an afterthought. Recovering songwriter Sting contributes the record's only bad apple, the bland "You Will Be My Ain True Love." Krauss does her best to paint the tune in period colors, but Sting - who insists on singing harmony - keeps the piece firmly entrenched in the very nonsepia-toned world of adult-contemporary pop. Inman Nicole Kidman as Ada Monroe Rene Zellweger as Ruby Thewes Eileen Atkins as Maddy Kathy Baker as Sally Swanger. That same bleeding heart pumps through Alison Krauss' delivery of Elvis Costello's powerful "Scarlet Tide," a ballad of devastating beauty that works almost like a spiritual. With its delicate front-porch picking and wistful lyrics, it manages to walk the line between heartache and puppy love with a sweetness that's genuinely moving. ![]() For the most part, the White Stripes frontman successfully transplants himself into the genre, utilizing his throaty warble on Howlin' Wolf's "Sittin' on Top of the World" like a dust-bowl carny, and channeling fellow tenor Ralph Stanley on "Great High Mountain." However, it's the self-penned "Never Far Away" that elevates White above his garage rock trappings. Jack White opens the record with a stark rendition of "Wayfaring Stranger" featuring Nashville heavyweights Stuart Duncan, Norman Blake, and Dirk Powell. Like O Brother, Where Art Thou?'s dark, older sibling, the latest collection of blues, ballads, and laments from producer T-Bone Burnett is a veritable dictionary of traditional country and Americana, but with a weightier muse. The movie stars Nicole Kidman as Ada Monroe, the daughter of a Charleston, S.C., preacherman ( Donald Sutherland) who has moved to the district for his health. The strength of their affection could achieve this much despite the extreme social turmoil and destruction of war.Miramax hops on the old-timey bandwagon with the release of the soundtrack for Anthony Minghella's Civil War epic Cold Mountain. His love was powerful enough to find her and protect her and leave her with a son to raise. Inman eventually reaches Ada, conceives a child with her and then kills Teague before being mortally wounded himself. In spite of feeling a strong physical attraction for her, his longing for Ada prevents him from responding to her invitation. At one point he is given shelter by Sara (Natalie Portman), beautiful young woman with child, who offers herself to him. ![]() He risks death for desertion and travels the long dangerous road back to Cold Mountain. Daily Ada voices a heart-felt prayer for Inman to return. A star-studded film taking place in North Carolina during the. She manages to survive starvation with the aid of Ruby Thewes (Renee Zellweger), a brave, resourceful, illiterate farm girl. Cold Mountain is the film adaptation of the novel by the same name from Charles Frazier. After the death of her father, Ada finds herself helpless, defenseless and pursued by a local bully named Teague. When Inman enlists to fight for the South, they exchange photographs and a single parting kiss before he marches off to war. Though they exchange only a few formal words, their hearts respond to one another. As Inman makes his perilous journey home, Ada struggles to keep their home intact with the assistance of Ruby, a mysterious. Inman deserts his unit and travels across the South, aiming to return to his young wife, Ada, who he left behind to tend their farm. It is the story of a beautiful city-bred preacher’s daughter named Ada Monroe (Nicole Kidman) who meets a shy, handsome woodworker named Inman (Jude Law) in a secluded rural part of North Carolina at the outbreak of the Civil War. In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier named W.P. Read more and ask questions about this movie in the Movie Forums. Not merely a romantic fantasy, this movie depicts the true character and life-giving power of love.Īda and Inman are an inspiring example of Affection, Level 5 on the Scale of Romance. The story depicts the power of their incipient love to bind them together over time and distance, keep them physically and psychologically alive in the face of horrendous conditions, and eventually to reunite them. It stars Nicole Kidman and Jude Law as strangers that fall in love and are separated by the Civil War after exchanging a single kiss and promised of fidelity. Cold Mountain is a 2003 film written and directed by Anthony Minghella and based on the novel by Charles Frazier.
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