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Songs in the movie spy10/30/2023 The song is non-diegetic the events in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy take place some time before and after November 1973. Iglesias’ version of ‘La Mer’ is from his 1976 live album, En El Olympia, recorded at the famed Olympia concert hall in Paris. While Alfredson’s adaptation of John le Carré’s 1974 novel is unconventional from the start, it is still surprising when it ties together its loose narrative threads to the sound of Spanish singer Julio Iglesias singing ‘La Mer,’ a French chanson written by Charles Trenet and first recorded in 1945. Do secret agents have hearts that break? In its final minutes, Tomas Alfredson’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), delivers an affirmative answer with a pop song – a musical moment discordant with the film’s mostly grey, bleak mood, that conjures everything the world the sad, lonely men of MI6 inhabit is not.
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