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Sound of Noise

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A tone-deaf, music-hating cop tries to track down a group of guerrilla percussionists who are inundating the city with their anarchic concerts.
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Sound of Noise is a raucous, irreverent comedy caper with good tunes and a romantic finish.

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Austin Chronicle Rated: 3/5 Mar 24, 2012 Full Review Marjorie Baumgarten Austin Chronicle The film's joke is kind of one-note, although it maintains an exhilarating beat throughout. If Sound of Noise is the rhythm of the new city symphony, play on. Rated: 3/5 Mar 23, 2012 Full Review Sara Michelle Fetters MovieFreak.com The movie is a cacophony of sound, fury, silence, ingenuity and inspiration, everything revolving around a scenario that's a silly as it is absurd. Rated: 3.5/4 Mar 17, 2012 Full Review Patrick Felton Battleship Pretension It's the perfect musical for the Youtube Generation. Mar 16, 2021 Full Review Ed Travis Hollywood Jesus This film celebrates human creativity and encourages pushing the boundaries to make cutting edge art a reality. The quirkiness of the film might turn off some viewers, but I found it fascinating. Apr 9, 2020 Full Review Blake Griffin We Got This Covered Sound of Noise is outside the box, original and inventive. It's also hilarious, and extremely entertaining. The film is one of SFIFF's highlights. Rated: 8/10 Nov 11, 2013 Full Review Read all reviews

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kyle c Sound of Noise is a funny but timid film that is clearly heavily influenced by its production team's love of music. It has some really cool set pieces that are used to make music in extremely unique ways, which is hands-down the best part of the film. The story to tie all of these set pieces together is a little weak, but overall it's hard not to be entertained. A little forced romance aside, this is a fun and weird movie made by musicians, for musicians. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member This movie is an amazing critique of social standards and institution hierarchies that is so visible to any sort of non popular musician - and yet in the same movie critiques the value of music at all, and validates the dislike of music. Anarchist values, norm critiquing, and incredible musical insight are what make this movie incredible. As a musician at a school similar to that where the protagonist drummers attended, I understand that the same criticism every music major feels when they attend school is that their major is lesser because it's not often as well a money maker as other, more hailed, professions are, and it's therefore seen as needing some sort of justification as to why you would ever choose to do that - be a music major or go to a music school. It's those same pressures that music students face that they also subject all music to with a hierarchy of musical validity, namely that classical music is the utmost degree of music, and therefore is the only valid thing. In the movie the classical bourgeois institution is taken on by the anarchist drummers that understand there should be no hierarchy, and these drummers that so value music as their entire lives, are more able to empathize with the cop that has an extreme distaste for any music, than his own bourgeois, classical loving family. Unbelievable story, execution, and dynamic. Bravo! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Audience Member Weird and wonderful. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Audience Member Ce film suédois et très original, drôle et passionné par la musique. Sound of Noise est incomparable. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member interesting idea but it stops there Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/12/23 Full Review Audience Member Very creative, and totally out of the box! Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis A tone-deaf, music-hating cop tries to track down a group of guerrilla percussionists who are inundating the city with their anarchic concerts.
Director
Ola Simonsson, Johannes Stjärne Nilsson
Producer
Christophe Audeguis, Jim Birmant, Olivier Guerpillon, Guy Pechard
Screenwriter
Ola Simonsson, Johannes Stjärne Nilsson, Jim Birmant
Distributor
Magnolia Pictures
Production Co
Bliss, Wild Bunch, Nordisk Film, Film i Väst, Film i Skåne, dfm Fiktion
Rating
R (Some Brief Nudity|Language)
Genre
Crime, Drama, Musical
Original Language
Swedish
Release Date (Theaters)
Mar 9, 2012, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Oct 4, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA)
$24.4K
Runtime
1h 42m
Aspect Ratio
Scope (2.35:1)
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