Composer Alexandre Desplat has created the soundtracks to over 100 films and
developed a reputation as one of cinema's finest music makers. A child prodigy
who began playing piano at five, the Frenchman grew up in Paris in the 1960s and
studied classical and orchestral music as well as becoming obsessed with Latin,
South American and African styles. He made his name making incidental music for
French television and cinema, before attracting the attention of Hollywood with
the crossover movie The Luzhin Defence in 2000. Noted for his emotive,
orchestral compositions, his work on G...