You can always count on Alexandre Desplat to break, melt, or strengthen the audience’s hearts. Desplat knows how to communicate to body and soul in general, mind you, making him just the right man for the job to score Frankenstein .

It’s another elegant collaboration between filmmaker Guillermo del Toro and Desplat, who won the Academy Award for scoring The Shape of Water .

There is more beauty than horror in Frankenstein , so Desplat wasn’t scoring a horror movie. It’s more of a love story, whether it’s a love for creation or the family blood that binds us or haunts us. It’s the romance, not the violence, that spoke to the composer.

Recently, Desplat – who’s also scored many Wes Anderson pictures as well as great epics such as The Curious Case of Benjamin Button , Zero

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