Berberian Sound Studio

- 2012
- UK
- 1h 32min
- 15
- Directed by: Peter Strickland
- Cast: Toby Jones, Cosimo Fusco, Antonio Mancino, Fatma Mohamed, Salvatore Li Causi, Chiara D'Anna, Tonia Sotiropoulou, Eugenia Caruso, Susanna Cappellaro, Guido Adorni, Lara Parmiani, Jozef Cseres, Pál Tóth, Katalin Ladik, Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg
- Language: English, Italian
- UK release: 31 August 2012
In the 1970s, a British sound technician (Toby Jones) is brought to Italy to work on the sound effects for a gruesome horror film. His nightmarish task slowly takes over his psyche, driving him to confront his own past. Striking and unsettling, this is boundary-stretching, genre-fuddling work.
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Berberian Sound Studio


Striking and unsettling film from Peter Strickland set in a 1970s Italian horror sound studio
Films that address the artifice, fakery and manipulation inherent in their own medium obviously offer geeky thrills for knowing buffs, but they also draw out the intriguing emotional complexity of the filmmaker/viewer relationship: the fact that we…
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