Film Music Reporter

Plaza Mayor Company has released a soundtrack album for the Italian/Belgian biographical drama Miss Marx. The album features the film’s original Gatto Ciliegia contro il Grande Freddo (Nico, 1988, The Stonebreaker) and the punk rock band Downtown Boys. Visit Amazon or any other major digital music outlet to stream/download the soundtrack and to check out audio samples. Miss Marx is written and directed by Susanna Nicchiarelli and stars Romola Garai, Patrick Kennedy, Felicity Montagu, John Gordon Sinclair, Karina Fernandez, Oliver Chris and Philip Gröning. The movie centers on Karl Marx’s youngest daughter as she takes part in the workers’ battles and fights for women’s rights and the abolition of child labor in the late 19th Century and details her tragic relationship with Edward Aveling. The drama premiered at last year’s Venice Film Festival and opened in Italian theaters last fall. No word yet on a domestic release.