Berberian Sound Studio
Director: Peter Strickland
Year Released: 2012
Rating: 1.0
A shy English sound editor (Toby Jones) is hired by an Italian filmmaker (Antonio Mancino) to work on his newest giallo except the tension in the studio, the constant rudeness by the staff and the screaming by the voice actors (as well as the sound effects made for the movie by brutalizing produce) may or may not be affecting him emotionally. Despite Jones' willingness to play the Momma's Boy trapped in the harsh world of making cheesy horr- ... I mean Santini pictures, Strickland is a bit too assured the screeching and random effects have an effect on the audience: for Jones it's supposed to be a nightmare, but I found it to just be skillful auditory tinkering prone to redundant tendencies. The third act ill-advisedly turns into a proto avant-garde jumble (including a reference to Tscherkassky's masterful Outer Space) because, I'm guessing, the filmmaker had nowhere else to take his setup.
