How Red Rooms' Neo-Baroque Film Score Spoils* the Plot

Any fan of Baroque music will immediately catch the era's clear influence on Dominique Plante's film score for Red Rooms (2023), a most disturbing character study directed by Pascal Plante about a woman obsessed with a high-profile serial killer trial. I wanted to take a look at how the unique choice to take aspects of the Baroque passacaglia affects the narrative and might tell us more about the protagonist's motives. J.S. Bach and Vivaldi made an appearance in this discussion! ❧ J.S. Bach—Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor, BWV 582 (performed by Reitze Smits):    • Bach - Passacaglia in C minor BWV 582 - Sm...   ❧ Vivaldi—Concerto for Strings in G Minor, RV 157 (performed by Adrian Chandler [director] and La Serenissima):    • Bach - Passacaglia in C minor BWV 582 - Sm...   Chapters: 00:00 Intro 01:25 What's a passacaglia? 02:45 Why I think Dominique Plante chose the passacaglia 12:10 Plante's choice of instrumentation 12:52 Closing thoughts 13:26 Outro