Help on Song ID from film Irma Vep

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Can anyone clue me in on the song that plays in the film Irma Vep over the black and white found footage of the French Situationists? It's maybe, oh, 45 minutes into the film, somewhere near the dinner party scene the costume designer gives Maggie a ride to. It's very pretty, spare acoustic guitar, some woman singing, then it rips into full band psych mode. It plays for about a half a minute. The words on the screen are graffiti, some stuff about how cinema will free the workers or something Godardian in nature. My guess is maybe Brigitte Fontaine + Areski? Although it could be Brazilian or somesuch other language. I've looked at the end credits when I rented it, but my screen was/is too small to make out the cursive font. IMDB is no help. I've emailed Zeitgeist films about this on and off for three years, and they've never bothered responding. So... now the task falls to you, ILM..... Merci!

― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Thursday, 3 June 2004 02:54 (twenty years ago) link

i believe it was Luna's "Bonnie and Clyde" cover?

― ryan (ryan), Thursday, 3 June 2004 03:03 (twenty years ago) link

No, I don't that's it. Their cover plays over the ending credits, and it for all intents and purposes sounds just like the Bardot/Gainsbourg original. The melody of the song I'm searching for sounds nothing like it. UNLESS they tacked on this other part before or after the cover part? Confirm? The Irma Vep website says the song plays during the dinner scene too, but the song that plays over the black and white footage I was referring to is definitely not Bonnie and Clyde.

― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Thursday, 3 June 2004 03:11 (twenty years ago) link

ah sorry i didnt read close enough. unfortunately i have no idea.

― ryan (ryan), Thursday, 3 June 2004 03:14 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.zeitgeistfilms.com/current/irma/irmasoundtrack.html

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 3 June 2004 03:21 (twenty years ago) link

(in other words, ryan OTM)

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 3 June 2004 03:22 (twenty years ago) link

"The music heard during Maggie and Zoe's bike ride is from the album TALKING TIMBUKTU by ALI FARKA TOURE with RY COODER."

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 3 June 2004 03:25 (twenty years ago) link

(in other words, Alex in SF OTM and sean c in bad reading comprehension while exhausted shocker)

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 3 June 2004 03:29 (twenty years ago) link

Well it's possible it is NEITHER, but I'd wager from descriptions that it is this.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 3 June 2004 03:33 (twenty years ago) link

Thanks but no thanks everyone, Alex in SF OTM that it's neither, I've listened to everything proffered so far and nada. Hate to be such a grouchy balloon buster but life is short and I can afford to be picky. What I need is for someone with a DVD of it to just chapter forward to the end and read me the credits, please. After 3 years I've certainly exhausted all the web has to offer.

― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:24 (twenty years ago) link

eighteen years pass...

I'm currently watching the Irma Vep series and was looking for a thread, but 18 years later I can answer this question.

The song used with the b/w French Situationist footage is the 1968 version of "La Era Esta Pariendo" by Silvio Rodríguez. He later recorded an all-acoustic version in the 1970s, but the 1968 version with the band is the one you want

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjEF3IPVHHs

Strangely, there's nothing about it in the end credits so did Assayas even bother to clear it?

― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 26 November 2022 05:45 (two years ago) link

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