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Cashback’s extensive fanbase stretches back to 2004 when the original 19 minute short was first released and sweeped top prize at fifteen international film festivals before landing an Oscar nomination for best short film.
The short launched on iTunes in 2006 and ranked among the top three short film downloads for two years.
The tale of an art student working in a supermarket whose imagination runs wild was extended to a feature length film In 2007 to popular and critical acclaim. Writer director Sean Ellis utilises all his experience as a leading fashion photographer to bring together stunning visuals with a very original soundtrack approach.
The music soundtrack features an eclectic mix of musical styles which range from operatic arias, a classically influenced score by Guy Farley and cutting edge contemporary music.
Previous Guy Farley soundtracks include The Flock, Modigilani and Mother Theresa Of Calcutta.
BBC ONLINE
by Michael Quinn
”Guy Farley's soundtrack for cult short-turned-award-winning feature Cashback is sweet, sensitive, subtle and sophisticated. Hauntingly gorgeous to boot, it also serves to confirm him as one of the most promising film composers to have emerged in the last decade. Cashback began life as a quirky 19-minute short in 2004, won awards at 15 international film festivals and picked up an Oscar nomination. That success, and the support of a sizeable online fan base, led to a much-anticipated feature-length version. And, happily, to Farley's delightfully beautiful score. There's something tantalisingly disembodied about this diaphanous, gossamer-light music. Which is appropriate enough, given the film charts the life of broken-hearted, insomnia-stricken Ben, who kills time by working the late-night shift at his local supermarket, where his artistic, sleep-deprived imagination begins to run wild. Farley's score employs a 45-piece orchestra augmented by hypnotically mournful slivers of solo piano and exotic chime and percussion overdubs. Shimmering, moonlit, lovelorn high strings are to the fore, with rumbling low-pitched bass forces providing a disconcerting undercurrent that ebbs and flows as the emotional temperature changes to almost narcotic effect. Especially admirable is Farley's willingness to imbue the domestic and the mundane with something approaching heroic (but never overstated) grandeur and to imbue the whole with a touching (but never sentimental) tenderness. Full of interesting ideas and evocative touches, it exerts a darkly melodic, quietly mesmeric pull. Farley's classically-accented score is complemented by a cleverly eclectic handful of songs. Highlights include feisty 60s soul girl-group, The Gypsies' Jerk It, Grand Avenue's intoxicating, gravity-free ballad She, Swedish indie outfit The Concretes with the bustling, brass-laden You Can’t Hurry Love (no, thnankfully, not a cover of that one!), UK duo Evil 9's breakbeat-laced Snack Bar Lounge, and Malente's magnificent Funk the Rich.”
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