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Yorgos Lanthimos has developed a reputation in the film world for his unique style of filmmaking, recognisable aesthetic and use of the absurd. But did you know he had never worked with a composer on a score for any of his films… until now? Here’s everything you need to know about the music behind his 2023 film Poor Things <\/em>and the unexpected new composer behind the Poor Things <\/em>soundtrack.<\/strong><\/p> The Poor Things <\/em>soundtrack is composed by Jerskin Fendrix, a first-time film composer. It is Fendrix’s first collaboration with Yorgos Lanthimos, the film’s director, and is incidentally the first time Lanthimos has worked with a composer in any of his films. ‘Both of us were quite apprehensive and coy about the whole thing, but it’s nice that we both came onto this as virgins, I suppose,’ Fendrix told The Upcoming<\/em><\/a><\/strong> <\/em>in a recent interview. <\/p> When Fendrix was brought onto the project, the set designs and vision for the film had been drawn out. He had written most of the score before filming had even begun, thanks to Lanthimos’s detailed vision. Although the film is loosely based on a novel by Alasdair Gray, Fendrix was instructed to not read the novel before scoring the film. <\/p> ‘We didn’t have any references at all outside of the film, which was actually a very odd but very helpful way of going about it,’ Fendrix explains. ‘We didn’t talk about any other music or composers or films, but I had everything I needed. The script was extraordinary \u2013\u00a0I was extremely moved by the characters and the way in which they expressed their emotions. That was a great foudnation for where the themes and the melodies needed to come from.’<\/p> ‘When Bella falls in love, I wanted the music to fall in love with her,’ Fendrix says about his process. <\/p> Fendrix wanted to put humour at the core of his writing, something he shares with director Lanthimos. ‘Humour is a really important part of human experience, and every serious thing that happens to someone is peppered with stupidity and ridiculousness.’<\/p>Who composed the Poor Things <\/em>soundtrack?<\/h2>