Review: The Great Gatsby

Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton, Tobey Maguire, Isla Fisher, Elizabeth Debicki, Amitabh Bachchan

Directed by: Baz Luhrmann

After being delayed by five months, my most awaited film of last year finally comes out, in the shape of a Baz Luhrmann (Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge!) adaptation of one of my favourite novels of all time, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. The trailer promised it to be a grand, glamorous and over the top three-dimensional film that the roaring twenties and the extravagant world of Jay Gatsby demands, leading to high expectations of a man known to be more style than substance. Luckily, so was Gatsby.

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On the NPR website, you can stream the whole of The Great Gatsby soundtrack, ahead of its release next week.

Link: The Great Gatsby Soundtrack at NPR

A number of songs have already been made available in their entirety, but you can listen to Beyonce and Andree 3000’s cover of Back To Black, which is pretty good, and Jay Z’s $100 Bill, which features dialogues from the film throughout the song.

Check it out. Will do a review properly when I get the chance (and not from streaming it).

The soundtrack is out in the US May 7th, and UK 13th. Film is out 10th and 16th respectively.

The Great Gatsby Soundtrack Sampler

Interscope Records have released a sampler on YouTube of the soundtrack to the upcoming film adaptation of The Great Gatsby. The upcoming movie, directed by Baz Luhrmann and starring Leonardo DiCaprio in the title role, features a soundtrack produced by Jay Z, as well as a score by Craig Armstrong.