Project Cinema (4): Julie

First of a few guest-selectors on Project Cinema is stingykid Adriana, who has a knack for Julie Delpy:

French-born actress Julie Delpy began her film career with a small role in Goddard's Détective and has gone on to star in Europa Europa, Kieslowski's Trois couleurs: Blanc, and Killing Zoe. But she's best known on my side of the Atlantic as the alluring and articulate French grad student Celine in Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise and Before Sunset. The latter features three songs from her 2003 eponymous album, Julie Delpy.

Delpy has been living in the US since 1990, and with the exception of Je t'aime tant and Time to Wake Up, the album is sung in English. The Before Sunrise and Before Sunset soundtrack arguably includes the best tracks from the album (I've included two of the three below) but all of Julie Delpy is worth a listen. Delpy's confident singing voice rises above the occasional clumsy lyric, and her subtle French accent is incredibly endearing. The songs cover a lot of emotional ground and are beautifully orchestrated and arranged by producer-composer Philippe Eidel.

Julie Delpy - Je t'aime Tant
Julie Delpy - An Ocean Apart

See Julie sing via YouTube.