Berberian Sound Studio (2012)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2012
	Director: Peter Strickland
	Actors: Toby Jones (Captain America 1-2), Antonio Mancino, Guido Adorni
	Country: GB
	Genre: Drama, Thriller
	Conditions of visioning: 19.11.2013, Blu-ray, Home cinema
Synopsis: Gilderoy (Jones), a shy British movie sound editor (or Foley) arrives in Italy after being hired to edit the soundtrack of the Giallo movie entitled The Equestrian Vortex.
Review: This movie met quite a sixes at the festivals around the world (and especially in Europe) in 2012. I think to remember it described as a kind of Giallo, so wanted to see it as part of my discovery of the new movies in this genre (like Amer, Masks, Tulpa...). It has some characteristics of the Giallo: extreme close-ups, importance of the sounds, insects, putrefaction, witches, the setting in Italy, leather... but there is not one single murder in this movie! The viewer actually spends a lot of time watching people creating the soundtrack of a Giallo, from which we never see a single shot (only the opening credits). This is what is fascinating in this movie: we hear the crude description of brutal scenes, hear them being dubbed, but never see them so that we have to imagine everyting. What happens actually is that the "hero" Gilderoy is so perturbed by those scenes (and the foreign team and location) that he starts to loose his grasp on reality and almost becomes part of a movie. At that point the Berberian Sound Studio started to become too conceptual for my taste. But until then I loved the way the film was shot and especially edited. I though at the beginning that the editing was confused because of the seamless transitions between the recording studio and the apartment of Gilderoy, but then I understood this confusion is intentional. That you like or not the turn the movie takes, I think it deserves to be seen. Oh, I almost forgot to mention that Toby Jones is EXCELLENT! Below you will find some additional posters for the movie that I find all interesting (there are more here).
Rating: 7 /10