From Amazon:
“L’assoluto naturale‘ is a 1969 film based on the eponymous novel by Goffredo Parise and directed by Mauro Bolognini, whose many movies have been scored by Ennio Morricone.
The two leading actors are Sylva Koscina and Laurence Harvey. The film falls in the bourgeois sentimental drama category, which was very popular in those years – lead by the well known ‘Metti, una sera a cena‘.
It’s a soundtrack that blends classical, jazz, pop and lounge music in various reworks of the main theme, in the typical ‘Morriconian‘ trademark.
Among the orchestrations directed by Bruno Nicolai, the track “Assalito dalle rondini” stands out, an abstract composition for strings characterized by tension-laden dissonances and dramatic orchestrations.
Originally released in 1969 and reissued in a few subsequent editions, the soundtrack of ‘L’assoluto naturale‘ has been missing a vinyl version for 40 years: this new one, with remastered audio and a new graphic layout, finally delivers this excellent soundtrack again to it’s ideal dimension.
From Quartet Records:
“One of the most memorable scores by Ennio Morricone in the late sixties is back in its definitive edition!
Although best known for his collaborations with other directors (Sergio Leone, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Giuseppe Tornatore, Brian de Palma), the name of Ennio Morricone was asociated with Mauro Bolognini in a total of fifteen films over more than three decades, including some of his most famous and melodic works (Metello, L’Eredita Ferramonti, La Villa Dei Venerdi, Fatti di Gente Perbene, etc).
L’Assoluto Naturale is one of his most celebrated collaborations, with a main theme that became immediately an absolute classic. The album was released on LP by Cinevox in 1969, and reissued on CD several times in Italy and USA Japan. We are very proud to release the score in complete form for the first time, with a very improved sound mastered by Claudio Fuiano and Dániel Winkler from the first generation master tapes, courtesy of Cinevox.”
The Film:
From Wikipedia:
Internationally released as He and She and She and He) is a 1969 Italiandrama film directed by Mauro Bolognini.
The plot focuses on a mysterious romance involving an uninhibited woman (Koscina) and a dour photographer (Harvey), shot in strange modernist interiors and abstract “sports car on a highway to nowhere” exteriors.
The work of cinematographer Ennio Guarnieri in this film has been referred to as “one of the cornerstones of Italian photography in the sixties”.[1]
Watch the film here (albeit in a less than stellar transfer):
https://m.ok.ru/video/7109566401094