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Max Richter’s Sleep (Johns, 2019)

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Dan Slevin
Aug 30, 2024
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Still from the 2019 documentary Max Richter's Sleep

We are big fans of composer Max Richter in this house. In fact, the editor-in-chief can spot a Richter soundtrack at 100 paces and there are plenty of them.

Sometimes it’s just the one track (“On the Nature of Daylight”) used in multiple films. We have heard it in Shutter Island, The Last of Us, The Handmaid’s Tale and – most famously – in Arrival where…

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