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Best movie ever!
BallWubba
Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.
By-TorX-1
Never to return. The look of Berberian Sound Studio is gorgeous and the sound is marvellous, but the script goes nowhere. If the film had kept things simple, a man overcome by his immersion into the horror of exploitative giallo, then the film would have been a marvel, but the plot unravels (yes, reflecting the central character's state of mind, etc.) to the point that you regret the time investment you have made in watching it. Indeed, while probably very deep and surreal, the last quarter of the film just seems as if the script wasn't finished when production was greenlit and no ending was conjured before the final day of shooting. I have no problem with oblique endings (Lost Highway is fabulous), but this just dwindles away, which is a shame given the earlier promise. Sometimes just telling a story is all that is required, and Berberian Sound Studio just needed to do that.
temrok9
I had had the pleasure of watching Berberian Sound Studio at first in Thessaloniki film festival, and I was greatly satisfied and surprised with the real cinematic freshness this films brings in the fields of horror movies and art cinema(if there is such a field) at the same time.Genuine and enigmatic, it does not succumb to the trendy ways in which directors usually manipulate their material these days,and does not seek to impress for nothing, but creates its own universe with completely original means, despite the fact that it is certainly referring to a certain era, that of the Italian Giallo, reproducing a feeling that belongs to that era, but at the same time creating something new.I consider this film one of the best I have watched over the last five years and a very serious candidate for the list of the ten best movies of the decade, when the moment comes.I understand that it is not for all tastes-as I realized by the reactions of many spectators-but I believe it's a film worth fighting for that will have its place as a classic in the future.In the meantime, I can't wait to watch the new film by Peter Strickland in this year's Thessaloniki film festival, all the more as his films do not seem to have release in Greece beyond the festival.At least Berberian sound studio never did, so I bought it from Amazon to watch it again and again.
SnoopyStyle
Gilderoy (Toby Jones) is a sound engineer hired to work at an Italian studio. He is shocked at the material as he begins to work on The Equestrian Vortex. It's witchcraft movie in an all girl riding school. He's a quiet reserved English speaker and he's not making fast friends among his Italian co-workers. The boss Santini refuses to call it a horror movie. He becomes a paranoid mess as he falls further and further into his work.This is a movie filled with moodiness. Toby Jones is terrific. However, I want more creepiness and some scares. It definitely needs something more. It doesn't have enough weirdness. It doesn't have any shock. It is just a long tense tease that doesn't pay off. The story needs to be about something. This film wants to be The Shining but it doesn't reach anywhere close to it.
Daniel Medina
Berberian Sound Studio seems to gather inspiration from the Italian giallo films of the 1970's without actually being one itself. The film centers around an English sound engineer called Gilderoy who travels to Italy to work on the soundtrack of a horror/giallo film. During his stay he looses grip on reality. The most admirable aspect of Berberian Sound Studio is that it uses the giallo style of film making to tell a story that is outside the original scope of the genre. The story is fluid and the viewer is kept in a constant state of uncertainty. In place of garish colors that giallo films regularly employed, Berberian Sound Studio uses sound to create a thick-as-a-pound-cake atmosphere. An extremely unsettling film (if you're patient). 9/10
