During last Wednesday night’s viewing of Sentimental Value I noticed with a certain degree of surprise that a jazzy clarinet version of Alex North‘s love theme from Spartacus is on the soundtrack. It chimes in within the first half-hour or so. I spent some time searching for it on YouTube…unsuccessful. Has anyone recognized the track? Or who the jazz-combo performers are?
Why this Spartacus melody in particular? Director Joachim Trier wouldn’t use it for some banal thematic motive (Renate Reinsve‘s Nora also needs to break free, something like that)…too on-the-nose. But it did seem curious that he chose this anthem in particular.