Zbigniew Preisner (there’s one for the Scrabble match) is Poland’s film music god, having scored Kieslowski’s Three Colours and Dekalog. His work here for the overblown, befuddled Thomas Vinterberg turkey is tastefully shimmery, and strident only when necessary. Perhaps he could lease it out to an infinitely superior movie, which shouldn’t be hard to find. Among Vinterberg’s hilarious sleevenotes is a ludicrous boast: “It’s all in the film… including an excellent song I wrote. It is in Latin, and just as there are seven days, there are seven words in the song. Here they are?Ira Dei. Chaos Mundi. Homo Querem. Amorem.” That clears that up, then.
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