2/25/2023 0 Comments Berberian sound studio putlocker![]() ![]() Along with the unexpected Danish costume drama A Royal Affair(from the equally anarchic Zentropa stable), this was my highlight of 2012 – adventurous, enigmatic and sound as a pound.Īfter raising the roof at FrightFest, the Irish monster-pic Grabbers (2012, Sony, 15) enjoyed only a fleeting UK cinema outing as a prelude to the DVD release on which its true fortunes depend. Fittingly, this award-winning gem was released in the same year that Warp Films celebrated its 10th birthday, standing as a testament to the independent artistic spirit which the punchy production company helped foster in the UK. It's a treat for the ears too, with indescribable sights conjured from the sound of pulverised vegetables negating the need to show the movie in whose reels Gilderoy becomes increasingly lost. ![]() I detected nods to sources as diverse as Spanish director Fernando Trueba's The Mad Monkey (from Christopher Frank's French-language novel) Canadian maestro David Cronenberg's epochal Videodrome with its visions of the new flesh Henri Georges Clouzot's unfinished Inferno, the subject of a recent revelatory behind-the-scenes investigation/reconstruction and the celluloid incantations of Kenneth Anger – alongside (of course) everything from Suspiria to Amer.Īt the centre of it all is the brilliant Jones, who has breathed life into everyone from Truman Capote to Dobby the house-elf, here proving that he doesn't need prosthetic makeup or complex computer graphics to transform his features from British bewilderment to something altogether more uncanny. That Strickland should have conjured a supremely cineliterate fantasy is unsurprising. But as the new movie works its strange black magic, the line between fact and film, documentary and drama, starts to melt like a frozen frame of 35mm celluloid, burning its way into Gilderoy's tortured brain. ![]() Faced with scenes of fearsomely gaudy brutality (the director, Santini, tells him that "no one has seen this 'orror on screen before"), Gilderoy retreats into dreams of the pastoral English countryside, inspired by letters from his mother detailing the changing birdsong in their garden back home. The brilliantly versatile Toby Jones (whose Christmas TV performance in The Girl gave Anthony Hopkins a run for his money in the forthcoming Hitchcock) stars as Gilderoy, an uptight English sound engineer from Dorking who has been called to the continent to provide the aural effects for "The Equestrian Vortex", which he mistakenly imagines to be about horses. Now, with Berberian Sound Studio (2012, Artificial Eye, 15), he turns his eye towards Italy and the evocatively vivid giallo-inflected horrors of Mario Bava, Dario Argento et al, which set the stylish template for a generation of saleably derivative American 70s schlockers. In the extraordinary (anti)revenge thriller Katalin Varga (2009), writer/director Strickland unravelled a mythical archetype against the backdrop of the Carpathian mountains. W hile the press has been full of doom-and-gloom stories about the "British film industry" (whatever that is) dying on its feet, 2012 proved to be yet another year in which the UK punched above its weight thanks to the work of adventurously non-parochial film-makers like Peter Strickland. ![]()
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