![]() ![]() ![]() To bridge the gap between Casey’s quiet home life and unsettling discoveries on the internet, Giannascoli’s songs vacillate between gentle passages of acoustic guitar and strings and more abrasive, digital instrumentals. Strip malls, empty parking lots, and dirty snow banks make the setting of the film chillingly universal Giannascoli’s homespun music amplifies the melancholic beauty that hovers at the edges of those haunted scenes. Giannascoli is a natural fit, an enigmatic artist whose impressionistic lyrics and scuffed indie rock taps into the same suburban ennui that Schoenbrun captures in World’s Fair. Schoenbrun also listened to the music of Alex Giannascoli, aka Alex G, while writing the script, and eventually they recruited the Philadelphia songwriter to compose an original score. Schoenbrun’s film is highly attuned to sound: clacking keyboards, the beeping timer on a Photo Booth recording, and gentle, sleep-inducing ASMR help establish World’s Fair’s deeply online mood.
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