Question

After asking whether her love interest has ever heard an orchestra perform, a woman in a film demonstrates by playing a piece by this composer against the backdrop of a burning fireplace. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this composer. At the end of Portrait of a Lady on Fire, the camera cuts from Marianne and zooms-in on a teary-eyed Héloïse sitting in a theater box while this composer’s music plays in the background.
ANSWER: Antonio Vivaldi (The music played is “Summer” from The Four Seasons.)
[10e] A Vivaldi violin concerto accompanies music by Handel and Purcell in the Baroque soundtrack to the period drama The Favourite, which was directed by a filmmaker from this country. A composer from this country, Vangelis, created the soundtrack to the film Chariots of Fire.
ANSWER: Greece [or the Hellenic Republic; or Ellinikí Dimokratía] (The unnamed filmmaker is Yorgos Lanthimos.)
[10h] Vivaldi’s Concerto for Two Horns accompanies a shot of a distant funeral in a film by this director, in which a filmmaker and his son drive around the countryside while searching for two actors in the aftermath of an earthquake.
ANSWER: Abbas Kiarostami (The film is Life, and Nothing More…)
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