Silver Bear for Desplat in the Berlinale

French composer Alexandre Desplat won the Silver Bear to the best music in the last edition of the Berlin Film Festival.

It was his music for De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté, a film by Jacques Audiard, which raised the jury's enthusiasm.

Being the author of very interesting scores, such as Birth, The Luzhin Defence or Girl with a Pearl Earring, Desplat is currently working on three new projects: Hostage, starring Bruce Willis; The Upside of Anger, with Kevin Costner and Joan Allen; and a French comedy tittled Tu vas rire mais je te quitte (You will laugh, but I leave).

Furthermore, it has been announced this same week that Desplat will also score Casanova, Lasse Halström's new film project, starring Heath Ledger, Lena Olin and Jeremy Irons.