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29 October 2019
Who is Mica Levi, the composer behind the
music in ‘Monos’ and Jonathan Glazer’s ‘The
Fall’?
By Rosie Pentreath
Both Alejandro Landes’s critically acclaimed ‘Monos’ – out this week – and Jonathan
Glazer’s TV short, ‘The Fall’, which aired on Sunday, have powerful scores. Here’s
everything you need to know about their composer.
A short film – The Fall – by Jonathan Glazer (Under the Skin, Sexy Beast) aired with little
fanfare, five minutes before Live at the Apollo on Sunday night.
It has no dialogue and is a frankly terrifying sequence featuring nooses and masked men
– inspired by a glib photo featuring a couple of Trump Jrs after an apparent hunting kill, a
Bertolt Brecht poem and a macabre Goya self portrait, according to this Guardian article.
The music accompanying Glazer’s short film is as disquieting as the visuals, and is from the
brilliant mind of Mica Levi – who also brought us the scores for Under the
Skin (2014), Jackie (2016) and most recently, Alejandro Landes’s critically acclaimed
film, Monos (2019).
Who is Mica Levi, the composer behind the music in ‘Monos’ and Jonathan Glazer’s ‘The
Fall’? Picture: DAVE J. HOGAN / GETTY IMAGES / NEON
