Le Motorizzate Soundtrack Review: This is a review of the film score Le Motorizzate by Carlo Savina.

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At a glance:

Geek Score: 95.6
Total Minutes Of Excellence: 34.3
Album Excellence: 81.8%

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Le Motorizzate AKA The Motorized Women is a 1963 Italian anthology comedy film directed by Marino Girolami and starring Toto, Walter Chiari and Bice Valori. Five segments. The collision between a van of religious, supporters of the Christian Democrats, and a Fiat 600 with on board a group of young militants of the PCI. Misadventures of a prostitute who works into a caravan placed under a viaduct. A walker faces a foot race to the beat of music. The poor Urbano Cacace impersonates a traffic policeman in order to feed his family. A woman with her brand new car hit a man who tries to take advantage of the incident attempting an insurance scam. The score is composed by Carlo Savina.

The opening cue AKA ‘Seq 1’ sets the tone to what might be a very fun time for lovers of classic Italian comedic cinema, The music is a simple bossa nova-esque theme which is admittedly quite fun and extremely hummable. This is one theme you might have a hard time getting out of your head in the middle of the night when you are trying to sleep. There’s something about these classic comedy scores, Italian or not, which I find supremely charming. I’m not laughing out loud while listening, but I’m definitely cracking a smile or two. There’s something about the sound which appeals to me and it’s very different than modern comedy scoring.

There’s a jazz element to the comedy as well which I love. You can hear it sprinkled all over the cues, mostly as a fast-paced rhythmic underscore, but there’s also slow jazz in cues like ‘Seq 4’ and even smooth velvety jazz like in the opening of ‘Seq 5’. See, to me, jazz and comedy is a brilliant match and this score is yet more proof of that. Like I said, the first cue sets the tone, and coupled with some vintage jazz, that’s exactly what you’ll get. Personally I love it, but if you don’t love either the first or the second cue, then I don’t think you’ll love the score as a whole. This is a straight hit with me though, a type of score I don’t listen to very often, but when I do, I fall in love all over again. It’s animated and fun, a type of score which sound is literally not made anymore. It’s a blast from the past and I love it.

HIGHLIGHTS:
1. Seq 1
2. Seq 2
3. Seq 3
4. Seq 4
5. Seq 5
6. Seq 6
7. Seq 7
10. Seq 10
12. Seq 12
13. Seq 13
14. Seq 14
15. Seq 15
16. Seq 16
17. Seq 17