Nathan Silver’s upcoming movie stars Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane
Joanna Sternberg has returned with “A Country Dance” for the upcoming film Between the Temples.
The track — dedicated to Sternberg’s friend, Sami Bronowski — is a charming acoustic ditty packed with dazzling lyrics about drinking wine and dancing beneath the stars. “The joke of the song is: I don’t dance, I don’t drink wine, I don’t go outside, and I DEFINITELY do not go out in nature (allergies and insect phobias),” Sternberg said in a hilarious statement. “But I wanted a playful nonsensical song to sing and to capture the fun I have with my dear pal.”
Between the Temples, directed by Nathan Silver and starring Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane, arrives Aug. 23. In the film, Schwartzman is a cantor struggling with his faith, while Kane plays his grade school music teacher who reenters his life.
“I think the reason the song can fit in this beautiful film is that it captures a freewheeling imaginative feeling,” Sternberg said. “The lyrics are vague enough to be applied to anything, and it just creates a ‘fun and fancy-free’ mood!”
Sternberg posted a video on their Instagram account of Schwartzman talking about the track: “It’s the song that closes out our movie Between the Temples, and [I] could not be more honored to be associated in my way with this piece of music, and I hope that you love it as much as I do.”
Last summer, Sternberg released their second album, I’ve Got Me. “I’ve been secretly saving these songs, hoping for something like this,” they told Rolling Stone. “This is an album in the sense of, ‘I finally get to do this! This is my dream come true, and I’m doing it, this is me!’”
