Ultrasonic

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Ultrasonic

R

2012

1h 30m

Drama

Mystery & Thriller

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8 Reviews

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A musician with hypersensitive hearing searches for a sound that plagues him but cannot be heard by anyone else.

Peter Hartlaub

San Francisco Chronicle

Jun 21, 2012

2/4

An electronic score pulses throughout the film, which can be cliched in individual scenes but still goes in some unexpected directions.

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Robert Abele

Los Angeles Times

Jun 8, 2012

2/5

The kind of grimly serious low-budget indie that wants to shake up perceptions about our engagement with the world, but mistakes repetition for resonance.

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Robert Koehler

Variety

Jun 7, 2012

Undone by tone-deaf repetitiveness and a particularly slack midsection, this debut feature by jack-of-all-trades filmmaker Rohit Colin Rao has some interesting ideas, but is unable to convincingly dramatize them.

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Brent Simon

Shockya.com

Jul 29, 2012

B

A savvy, artful, well constructed little domestic drama of paranoia that builds its story around its limited production means but never sacrifices its thematic inquiry, its essence, its core.

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Jules Brenner

Cinema Signals

Jun 9, 2012

2/5

The prolonged time devoted to Simon's susceptibility to Jonas' delusions leads to a wish on the audience's part to check what's playing on another channel.

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Kimberly Gadette

Doddle

Jun 7, 2012

4/10

Not so much black and white, as an intriguing black and gray and straw yellow and ivory, filmmaker Rao proves himself to be far more adept at shooting this film than writing it.

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Jul 2, 2012

It was just a few notches away from being a movie.

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Synopsis

A musician with hypersensitive hearing searches for a sound that plagues him but cannot be heard by anyone else.

Director: Rohit Colin Rao
Producer: Seynabou Gaye, Barg Upender
Screenwriter: Rohit Colin Rao, Mike Maguire
Distributor: Garden Thieves Pictures
Production Co: Gitbox Studios
Rating: R (A Scene of Sexuality|Language)
Genre: Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 1, 2012, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 29, 2016
Runtime: 1h 30m

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