Christine Birkhoff

Lassée par la lecture d'une satire misogyne, Christine de Pizan se lamente d'être née fille. Aidée de Raison, Droiture et Justice, elle construit une cité imprenable où la gente féminine est à l'abri des calomnies. Dans ce texte paru en 1405, l'auteure évoque des thèmes tels que le viol, l'égalité des sexes et l'accès des femmes au savoir. …

Christine, based on Stephen King's novel about an unusual kind of car repossession, was taken by John Carpenter from book to screen in a blazingly short time. Rather than bypassing his usual methods, as he did with The Thing, Carpenter once again chose to do the score. The original soundtrack released from the movie was a brief affair indeed, offering up a small selection of rock & roll tunes used in the movie, plus a short selection ("Christine Attacks," here with the subtitle "Plymouth Fury") from Carpenter's score. As it is, this Tangerine Dream-influenced, mechanically pounding number is probably the best thing in the score, highly visual, threatening, and relentless. As with the best of Carpenter's work, it's enough to haunt your dreams for a few days – a property shared by the scores for Halloween and The Fog (both on Varese Sarabande).