#35. Berberian Sound Studio
Director/Writer: Peter Strickland
Producers: Mary Burke (Submarine), Illuminations Films’ Simon Field and Keith Griffiths (Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives)
Distributor: Rights Available (Match Factory)
The Gist: Berberian Sound Studio is one of the cheapest, sleaziest post-production studios in Italy. Only the most sordid horror films have their sound processed and sharpened in this studio. Gilderoy (Toby Jones), a shy and nondescript sound engineer from the UK is hired to mix the latest giallo film by horror maestro, Santini (Antonio Mancino) and he soon finds himself caught up in a forbidding world of bitter actors, capricious foley artists and confounding bureaucracy...(more)
Cast: Toby Jones toplines.
List Worthy Reasons…: The Silver Bear (2009 Berlin Film Festival) and The European Film Academy’s Discovery of the Year award winning Katalin Varga announced that the arrival of helmer Peter Strickland. I have a penchant for films about the filmmaking process and an important factoid worth mentioning is that Strickland has a background in sound effect/recording profession so this should be of interest twofold.
Release Date/Status?: Currently in post-production, this would make for a great showing in Cannes or Venice followed by a BFI London premiere.
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