Rachel Portman: The Emperor's New Clothes

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Published 2014-06-26

I've always admired Rachel Portman's film-scores. Here is a very small sample of the music she wrote for a movie called 'The Emperor's New Clothes', starring Ian Holm as Napoleon. It's an historical fantasy which imagines a happy and fulfilled end to the former dictator's life. A charming and enjoyable film, sadly underrated. Very few stills from the movie are available, so I've made a sequence of Napoleonic images to go with the music, courtesy of Google.

All Comments (20)

@oscard9643 3 years ago

One of the loveliest movies I have ever seen.
@lastfatethorn4959 2 years ago

Beautiful film and soundtrack rest in peace ian holm
@think2086 5 years ago

Rachel Portman is great. I particularly love her Cider House Rules soundtrack.
@erikbeale3873 9 years ago

This movie rocks!!!
@days2122 2 years ago

Im from middle east.....and napoleon is the great brilliant leader ..salute viva la emperor..
@keithgrant9465 2 years ago

Fantastic score love seeing the old guards last stand at 3:55.
@071949 9 years ago

Colin, Thank you for introducing me to Rachel Portman. Beautiful!
@praksreedharan7086 11 months ago

Lovely, thank you!
@buzzbrayable 9 years ago

Nicely crafted, Colin. I must find out more of Rachel Portman. Thank you for posting!
@michaelcoatney2568 8 years ago

Thanks! Brilliant composer. Cheers,
@DomagojVistica 4 years ago

R.I.P. briliant military leader
@MajorDenisBloodnok 6 months ago

Nice movie and nice soundtrack. The second theme sounds dangerously like the theme written by Vangelis for the movie The year of living dangerously...
@WilcoG 8 years ago

Great video! Her soundtrack to Never Let Me Go is one of my favorites.
@banimil1982 4 years ago

Great score for a great movie. You get a glimpse at what if the emperor was given more time to clean up the filth which still plagues us to this day. Corrupt governments and diseased so called royal parasites, all in the deep pockets of a cabal of diseased inbreeds in control of an evil financial and enslaving system. With your ignorance and unfaithfulness in the true GOD you pay for your own imprisonment by borrowing from these leeches. Woe unto you.
@travisfriedland9346 2 years ago

Does anyone know the names of the paintings being shown in the video and what museums they might be in many thanks in advance to anyone who can help
@jameslabra8606 3 years ago

What's the title of the music.
@ncpiedmontone 7 years ago

pauvre France aujoud'hui! Ou est Napoleon? Ou est Charles Martel?
@NapoleonCalland 9 years ago

Former "dictator". Pfff.... Apart from that, briliant music and good choice of images. More pictures of his civilian achievements ( e.g. vaccination for the poor, hospices, hospitals, schools and universities, roads, ports and canals, libraries, workhouses for beggars, churches, synagogues, the Concordat, the Great Sanhedrin, the cadastral survey, public fountains and other monuments, the Legion of Honour, State-guaranteed retirement pensions, the Civil Code etc etc ... ) would have been better, but presumably you didn't find any in the public domain ?
@arielmontes877 9 years ago

Napoleon was nothing,Queen Victoria was Lady and Master of 19th Century