1. Is there a soundtrack of L&D?

Unfortunately there is no soundtrack of all Lost and Delirious music available on CD or any other media. But most songs are published on various albums and since October 2008 Yves Chamberland (apjiw) did publish the Lost and Delirious soundtracks composed by Yves on SoundClick.

2. What are the songs and the music in the movie?

The music is composed and arranged by

Yves Chamberland at Dusty Studio inc.

Composer’s Muse: Francine Leboeuf

The Music was re-recorded at Studio Victor inc.

The songs from the various artists are:

“BEAUTIFUL”

written and performed by Me´ Shell Ndegéocello

published by Revolutionary Jazz Giant / Warner Tamerlane Publishing Corp.

Courtesy of Maverick Records

By arrangement with Warner Special Products

"ADD IT UP (LIVE)"

Performed by Violent Femmes

Written by Gordon Gano

Published by Gorno Music

Courtesy of Beyond Music

“YOU HAD TIME”

Written and Performed by Ani DiFranco

Published by Righteous Babe Music

Courtesy of Righteous Babe Records

“RIVER WALTZ”

Performed by Cowboy Junkies

Written by Michael Timmins

Published by Paz Junk Music

Courtesy of Cowboy Junkies Inc.

"SANCTUS" from Missa Luba

Performed by Muungano National Choir

Directed by Boniface Mganga

Arranged by Peter G. Haazen

Publised by WB Music Corp

Courtesy of Universal Music

Music rights: Ron Proulx International

Assumedly the artist of the song at the very end of the movie - just as the raptor fades out and the credits begin to roll:

L’Ensemble vocal d’Outremont

Foley Artist: Jérome Décarire

Foley Recordist : Jo Caron

Foley Stage: Modulations

Foley is the ''sound effects'' used in film and television production. For example you would have a foley library which is the stock of available sounds. A foley technician will create sounds that do not exist in the library to match the picture.

The songs from Yves Chamberland are:

"lost and delirious"

Author: yves chamberland
Copyright: apjiw
Album: lost and delirious
Genre: Instrumentals, Film Music

"mary b"

Author: yves chamberland
Copyright: apjiw
Album: lost and delirious
Genre: Instrumentals, Film Music

"fencing"

Author: yves chamberland
Copyright: apjiw
Album: lost and delirious
Genre: Instrumentals, Film Music

"raptor"

Author: yves chamberland
Copyright: apjiw
Album: lost and delirious
Genre: Instrumentals, Film Music

"polly"

Author: yves chamberland
Copyright: apjiw
Album: lost and delirious
Genre: Instrumentals, Film Music

"boy's kiss"

Author: yves chamberland
Copyright: apjiw
Album: lost and delirious
Genre: Instrumentals, Film Music

"alone"

Author: yves chamberland
Copyright: apjiw
Album: lost and delirious
Genre: Instrumentals, Film Music

"the forest meeting"

Author: yves chamberland
Copyright: apjiw
Album: lost and delirious
Genre: Instrumentals, Film Music

"the last fight"

Author: yves chamberland
Copyright: apjiw
Album: lost and delirious
Genre: Instrumentals, Film Music

You can visit the band apjiw at www.myspace.com/apjiw and the label 9.12 Records at www.912records.com as well as www.myspace.com/lostdelirious to find out about more music composed by yves.

3. What does the writing on Paulie's wall say?

My bounty is as
boundless as the sea,
my love as deep;

the more I give to thee,
the more I have,
for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare
Juliet in "Romeo and Juliet"
act II scene II
a.d. 1593

4. Who is shown on the poster on Paulie’s wall?

The man on the map of Cuba on Paulie’s wall is Ernesto "Che" Guevara.

Che Guevara was a Latin American guerrilla leader and revolutionary theorist, who became a hero to the New Left radicals of the 1960s.

Ernesto Guevara de la Serna was born on June 14, 1928, in Rosario Argentina to Ernesto Guevara Lynch, a civil engineer of Irish descent, and Celia de la Serna of Spanish descent. Ernesto was the eldest of five children of the middle-class family with strong liberal tendencies.

In the late 1950s, he played in Cuba an important role in Castro's guerrilla war and he served as Cuba's minister of industry from 1961 until 1965.

He was captured by the Bolivian army and shot near Vallegrande on Oct. 9, 1967.

5. Where does the raptor come from?

Actually in the "making of" video shown on the Japanese DVD, screenwriter Judith Thompson told, "I met some once who had a falcon at a party and someone said 'I wanted to have a falcon as a pet' and she said 'It's not a pet, it's a killer!' and so I thought about that when I came to write this. And the idea of a falcon is something wild and beautiful… Paulie is like this."

The raptor's real name is "Woody" and it's from the Canadian Raptor Conservancy ; it's a Harris Hawk. The raptor is controlled by a few voice commands it learned since its birth when it was feed.

Additionally Susan Swan, author of the book “The Wives of Bath”, mentions about the raptor on her site:

http://www.susanswanonline.com/wives_bath_adaptation.html

“One of the girls cultist worship of King Kong as a symbol of masculine power had been exchanged for the love of a falcon, kept secretly on the school grounds.”

6. What does Paulie cite in the library?

The quote is taken of the Shakespeare play “Twelfth Night”, Act I Scene V:

Viola:

“Make me a willow cabin at your gate,

And call upon my soul within the house;

Write loyal cantons of contemned love,

And sing them loud even in the dead of night;

Halloo your name to the reverberate hills,

And make the babbling gossip of the air

Cry out 'Olivia!' O, you should not rest

Between the elements of air and earth,

But you should pity me.”

7. What does it mean: “I rush into the secret house”?

Shakespeare wrote in Anthony & Cleopatra: "is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?" Shakespeare is questioning here, whether it is a sin to kill yourself before death naturally comes us.

When Paulie is standing on the roof of the school, right before she jumps and commits suicide she says, "I rush into the secret house." What she is saying is that she is rushing into the secret house of death by committing suicide.

8. Where was the movie filmed?

Lost and Delirious was filmed on location in Montreal and at Bishop's University, Canada, but that doesn't mean that it is a university in the film. They just used the location and transformed it into a boarding house and high-school so the three girls are still in high school. As the name of the school never was mentioned it doesn’t matter to much.

All scenes shot in the room of Paulie, Tory and Mary B. were filmed in the studios as the room itself is not part of the Bishop's University, Canada.

9. What is the solution for the math problem we see in the classroom scene in L&D?

To define minimum value of the function:

f (x)= x^²-6x+11

f ’ (x)= 2x-6

f ’ (x)= 0 ® 2x-6=0

2x=6

x=3

Answer: When you have x=3 the function takes its minimum value: f(3)= 3^²-6*3+11=2 
(3;2)

10. How old are Paulie, Tori and Marry B.?

We assume according to the novel "The Wives of Bath" that Mouse is 15 years old, while Paulie and Tori are 17.

While the information of Mouse's age bases on the book (she is 16 there at the end of the novel), the age of Paulie and Tori bases on the movie, when Jake says to Tori:" Hey Tori! Isn't Tim's 18th coming up? Down at the Bluenote?" Tim is Tori's brother. We assume further, that Paulie and Tori are almost at the same age.

 
11. What Does “Dark Noon” Mean?

The precise meaning of dark noon is never given in Lost and Delirious. However, we can discover its meaning from the implications of the phrase and the context of its use.

The coupling of dark with noon creates conflicting associations. “Noon” signifies the time when the sun reaches its highest point in the sky. It corresponds with images of daylight, brightness and life. “Dark” corresponds with opposite images, as of night, sadness and death. The phrase implies that Paulie intends to commit an act that will disrupt the natural order and bring the characteristics of darkness into force at the time when they are least natural. She will possibly even go so far as to kill. Several things support this possibility.

First, in the documentary the Making of Lost and Delirious, Judy Thompson, the screen writer, points out how dangerous Paulie can be. Thompson says, the raptor is “something wild and beautiful that you want to tame…Paulie is like that…who can turn around and kill.”

Second, Paulie first uses the phrase “dark noon” when she challenges Jake to a “duel to the death.” Jake obviously doesn’t take this statement literally. It is possible, though, that Paulie “truly” means to kill, or die, for her queen, Victoria.

Third, Paulie sends her challenge to Jake shortly after the class on Macbeth, and, the night before the duel, she repeats lines from Lady Macbeth’s speech. Mary had interpreted the speech to mean that Lady Macbeth is “trying to get up the guts to do what she has to do.” What Lady M intends to do is never revealed in L&D, but she is preparing to murder Duncan, King of Scotland. The murder is so dreadful that the following day the sky remains as black as night, which is the natural world’s reflection of the darkness of the human deed (Macbeth, Act 2, Scene 4). By repeating Lady M’s lines, Paulie is trying to get up the guts to commit a similarly dark deed.

Finally, in the Wives of Bath, the novel on which L&D is based, Paulie does commit a murder. However, the film and the novel differ significantly, so the Wives of Bath makes an unreliable guide to what happens in L&D.