Re-posted by N.S.
"Last Embrace: A Symphony" (Miklos Rozsa, video)
Last Embrace was a black-and-white thriller, made on a shoestring, directed by Jonathan Demme, and starring Roy Scheider and Janet Margolin. Typically, I couldn't say anything about a thriller's story, without giving it away, but Last Embrace is a most unusual thriller.
The stars were both Jews playing Jews, which was very rare, and had a historical connection that made them practically cousins. She's a Ph.D. student in anthropology, and he's a fed who is coming off a nervous breakdown, who is convinced that people are trying to murder him...and he's right! To borrow from Forrest, "And that's all I've got to say about that."
As for the music, it is not prime Rozsa--he was an old man by then, and sometimes echoes his younger self--but it still beats the heck out of most of the competition.
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