One of the great revelations of the last times, the practically unknown Elia Cmiral has worked in the Swedish, British, Czech and North American cinemas, with films and documentaries as Apartment Zero (1988) or Babies for Babies (1997), but it is thanks to this work for John Frankenheimer's movie when he has been able to be know in an international way. Musician of undoubtful rhythmic and melodic gifts, with clear ethnic inspiration as it demonstrates the central melody of the film such as can be listened in the Main Title, Cmiral uses a wide spectrum of resources to accompany the images of the fully-motioned Frankenheimer thriller, leaning on so much in orchestral components as electronic. The result doesn't not only weaken inside and outside of the film, but rather it offers a stupendous alternative way for the sometimes paraolyzed action cinema, lately restricted to a limited group of authors that more than to supplement tries to silence the usually explosive plots with brutal and overloaded scores. A.L.

/ VARESE SARABANDE VSD-5977 / 66'

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