Berberian Sound Studio

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Ben W No option to delete. Just put stars in middle, sorry. 14th Sept 2024ce. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 09/14/24 Full Review Miguel M Esta pelicula me demuestra la dedicación que hay para ser un actor de post producción. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/30/24 Full Review Nina E If watching pretty brunettes screaming their heads off turns you on then you'll love this movie. If raw Italian machismo turns you on then there's something in this for you too. We experience it from the point of view of a meek Englishman who inadvertently landed himself in the raunchy world of B rated horror films, ahem, Santini films. The meek man is pretty much beating lettuce for sound effects until he is pushed into a Milgram experiment like task of torturing a scream actress with high pitch noise, but the actress walks out, so nothing much really happens but the general discomfort and awkwardness of watching a small man be bullied by his alpha bosses and pushed to madness is telling of how we end up with so much workplace violence. Please don't be a jerk at work. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 11/28/23 Full Review isla s This is undoubtedly a spooky and mildly sinister film, although it didn't really ourtright scare me but its certainly got a bit of an edge to it. The plot is slow and a bit low on the ground, so to speak. Its quite disorientating at times, with video footage thats distorted and continous long screams recorded. It just didn't quite equate to a great deal. I could understand the main characters discomfort in being involved with the production of a horror film (although the director/staff disagree on categorising the film their working on as such). The way that certain sound effects are created does seem perhaps a little distasteful at times, although there's nothing genuinely gorey shown. This is very much a visual film, in as much as there is some imagery which somewhat stands out but overall it seemed to me to be nothing more than an overly quirky, very arty type of a film, which I don't think necessarily said a great to me as such and so I wouldn't specifically recommend it as such, no. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Interesting for awhile only to become frustrating waiting for something more to happen. Where's the torture? Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Audience Member I have a deep affinity for bizarre films, ones that defy conventional norms and use their strange nature to tell a compelling story. When it's done right, it can be an absolute trip, and that's exactly what Berberian Sound Studio is. Toby Jones makes a convincingly put-upon lead, due in no small part to his being shorter than every other member of the cast, a decision I'm absolutely positive was intentional. He's surrounded by a mob of cast and crew members who go from treating him with either respect or indifference to outright disdain, and slowly we see this mild-mannered man lose his mind to his point where his life and his work are indistinguishable from one another. It's a tribute to the Italian Giallo films of the 70s, in all their blood drenched, sex-filled, psychotic glory. We see the sound mixing for the film taking place, and all the props and accessories films back then used to get the most effective sountrack, with watermelons being smashed, tomato stalks being ripped off and oil being boiled in a pan. It creates a very vivid picture of what it would have been like to make a film like the one featured, and as things progress the line between fiction and reality begin to blur until only 1 is left. Rather than just poking fun at Giallo films and their undeniable schlockiness, Berberian Sound Studio demonstrates that, even though they might be nothing more than cheap thrills to some, they can still be made with passion and determination. If this sounds like your kind of film, then see it when you get the chance. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/26/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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