The discussed film director Costa Gavras returns to the cinema, after several years of silence, with Mad City. The score comes signed by one of the composers that I consider more multifacet, Thomas Newman, and if something can be said of it, is that is absolutely assorted, and that it cannot be classified on any gender. It has strange moments, which we could almost qualify as experimental music (Max Goes Out, version 1), Hindu-type music (Mic Tap), mysterious music (Meanwhile).... and though seems strange it all fits perfectly. It is not an easy score to listening, and it required more attention than in others, being very recomendable several hearings to introduce ourselves on it and have the means to appreciate it on its whole; it has extraordinary moments, as Feeds Fly In, on which Newman composes a theme of great emotional stress, or the jewel of the record that corresponds in my opinion to the last cue, Unafavorable Light, that comes to be a compendium of the best parts of the score. Definitively, a score that is out of common places, from what are accustomed, and that will like to those that seek new sounds, new paths without putting aside the inner quality. A.M.

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