The National's Bryce Dessner to soundtrack new Netflix film The Two Popes

The Two Popes will star Anthony Hopkins as Pope Benedict XVI and Jonathan Pryce as Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who goes on to become Pope Francis.

Bryce Dessner has scored the soundtrack for the new film directed by Fernando Meirelles (City of God). Today he's shared one of the tracks, "Walls 2".

According to Pitchfork, Dessner said of the new soundtrack, "It was an absolute joy to work with such an incredible cast and team on The Two Popes. In particular I have always been a huge fan of director Fernando Mereilles and it was an honor to finally work directly on a film with him. His work is deeply musical and it was a wonderful journey to find the sound world for The Two Popes, which began with the intimate and incredible performances of Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce. This was the first film I’ve worked on a score where I got to visit the set as they were shooting in Rome for a few days and began composing in the room with the actors and crew. The score has moments of more abstract minimal and layered orchestral music which I wrote for Benedict’s scenes, and then music inspired by Argentina folk music (in particular Mercedes Sosa and Dinu Saluzzi) for which I spent a lot of time composing for the classical guitar again."

Tracklist:

1. Bryce Dessner - Walls
2. Mercedes Sosa - Cuando Tenga la Tierra
3. Bryce Dessner - Dialogues
4. Bryce Dessner - Vote Counting
5. Bryce Dessner - Ratzinger Election
6. Bryce Dessner - Garden Dialogues
7. Bryce Dessner - Was It Something I Said
8. Bryce Dessner - Shifting Gardens
9. Bryce Dessner - Cathedral
10. Bryce Dessner - Bergoglio’s Awakening
11. Bryce Dessner - Siete de Abril
12. Bryce Dessner - Dirty War
13. Bryce Dessner - Taken Away and Tortured
14. Bryce Dessner - They Took Esther
15. Bryce Dessner - Another Bergoglio
16. Bryce Dessner - Walls 2
17. Bryce Dessner - Pope Francis
18. Bryce Dessner - Sombras de Buenos Aires
19. Dino Saluzzi - Minguito
20. Tinariwen - Sastanàqqàm
21. Ray Conniff & His Orchestra - Besame Mucho