More than a year we had to wait (since The Cure) to see the birth of a new score from Dave Grusin, author little generous with movies, but whom always proves that when involved his work is masterful. If with Havana delivers a perfect symbiosis of latin rhythms and his own style Jazz Fusion, with The Firm takes the blues to his last consequences, and with The Cure returns to the intimacy of On Golden Pond, now with Mulholland Falls Grusin is back to the purest clasicism of the film noir, which so many masterpieces has given us (Chinatown or Body Heat, among others), and on which we may add this title undoubtely. Already on the first cue appear the master lines of this soundtrack, on whose first part is presented the main theme of the movie impregnate with some mysterious mood which will link with an outline of what will be this same theme, but played more dinamically, and also repeated along the score. Of course there are incidental themes, although on most of them there are little reminders of the main theme. Honourable mention deserves the last cue on the score (not on CD, which ends with a song performed by Aaron Neville, not composed by Grusin), which appear split on two parts, and which includes the only, but brief, appearance of sax, and some truly memorable piano improvisations. I.P.

/ EDEL 0022592CIN / 44'