12 Most Effective Musical Moments In Film
6. Mobandi: Mo Boma (Berceuse) - Until The End Of The World (1991)
The world is in turmoil as it nears the millennium. Forget Y2K, the planet is waiting for an Indian nuclear satellite to crash and possibly halt all communication.
Enter Claire Tourneur (Solveig Dommartin), a wandering soul searching for something that she cannot define yet. When she meets mysterious inventor Sam Farber (William Hurt) and discovers that he is being chased for his invention - a device that helps blind people see - she does not think for a second before joining him.
As they drive along a highway, the Pygmy music plays, soothing Claire's soul and taking us further into the intricate multicultural universe that Wenders has depicted. The hypnotic voices follow and blend into one another, making the characters and the audience forget impending doom and making us live in the kaleidoscopic moment.
Wenders’s rich vision remains a hope for a united future and the music in this sequence remains a powerful audio symbol of this promise.