Michael Giacchino is the author of the soundtrack of the Pixar cartoon Ratatouille. The French setting is underlined by all melodies. The movie opens with a nice sweet song about the difficulties of life and desire of changes. The sounds chosen for the adventures of Remi - a french mouse who wants to be a chef - seems to be taken directly from the cartoons of the '40, '50 and '60. The breath is classic somewhere jazz, following very well the plot of the movie and given the audience sometimes lightness or fun or emotion. The influences of the French composer Georges Delerue, of the jazz musician Claude Bolling and of Carl Stalling (author of some Looney Tunes soundtracks) are heavy and allow the audience to catch all the joie de vivre of Paris, as shown in the cartoon. Sounds, smells, colours, tastes recall nostagically an age full of romanticism and charme.  

Giacchino will win the Academy Awards in 2010, for the soundtrack of another cartoon, "Up".

The woodwinds, especially flutes, are the main characters of this arrangement for simphonic band.