Wojciech Kilar ’Love Remembered’ guitar cover

There was an open air cinema in the small Mediterranean seaside town where my family and I used to spend the summer holidays. During the summer, this cinema was doing a double session every night and, for the price of a single ticket, you could watch two movies that had been already showed in the city cinemas during the last winter. I was 15 when, a boring night with not much to do, I got a ticket to watch one of these double sessions. I don’t remember which was the other movie, but the second was ’Bram Stocker’s Dracula’. And that was it: since that night, it is my favourite movie ever, and Gary Oldman my favourite actor. The overall tone and aesthetics of the movie are yet to be matched by any vampire movie and, in my opinion,this has much to do with the soundtrack that the Polish composer Wojciech Kilar wrote for it. Coppola gave Kilar absolute artistic freedom, and his eastern European classical sensibility perfectly suited a movie that deals with the folklore from that