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The heated discussion following the news is understandable Two of our hottest young actorsPaul Mescal and Josh O’Connorstarring in a gay love story. But anyone pulls up Expect a high-octane epic to experience serious anticlimax. history of sound It’s not an ongoing relationship drama, but about a brief encounter that adds color to a life, and it’s not characterized by the strength of its leads – both of whom have given stronger performances in better movies. This is another mildly sentimental movie The man who built bill netty cars alive.
Director Oliver Hermanus transformed a small but profound idea into a two-hour film from a screenplay based on Ben Shattuck’s own short story. In 1917, Kentucky farm boy Lionel (Paul Mescal) meets the worldly and charming David (O’Connor) at a music conservatory in Boston. We are told through the opening voiceover that Lionel sees the color of the sound. So it makes sense that as he watched David play the piano in the smoky, wood-paneled bar, he saw a rainbow.
Their adorable encounter left the room silent. Lionel mutters that he can’t sing over the noise, and David tells everyone to quiet down. The owl-spectacled mezcal was opened by O’Connor’s wrinkled expression of adoration. The camera loves the expressive contours of their respective faces, but Hermanus is unable to penetrate the connection between these men. Their relationship was one of politeness, then friendliness, then familiarity. It just never reaches love.
This is the story of Lionel, who from 1910 to 1980 moved from Kentucky to Boston to Rome to Oxford and back to the United States in search of lost time. There were some memories in between when David showed up in his life. Their relationship at the conservatory came full circle in restrained conversation. Big guys like them, when they came out to travel, they traveled across the Maine countryside collecting songs. “My grandfather once said that happiness is not a story, so there’s not much to say about the first two weeks,” Lionel said of the brief time together.
Director of photography Alexandre Dinant (Paul Schrader’s cinematographer) delivers a solemn and somber visual language first reformed church and card counter) brings out the crisp leaves and sparkling lakes outdoors, where men stamp their feet and experience life experiences that also serve as memories. In one of Hermanus’s few subtle achievements, David collected the feathers that had fallen from Lionel’s pillow and stuffed them back into place as a secret act of caring.
At this point, the film still has everything going for it, it’s just that when the two men go their separate ways (David insists that Lionel fulfilled his musical potential rather than being with him), the key argument falters. like ordinary people and one day It works because of the unforgettable intensity of the bond between a frustrated couple after their long separation. Here, David doesn’t feel like a man who got away, more like a good teacher who has moved on, and the folk music themes don’t really fit into their story so much as add extra padding to their serenity.
The film becomes increasingly anonymous as we follow Lionel through situational experiences around the world, including relationships with women, as he transforms from Kentucky farm boy to famous singer. The backdrop of World War I and Lionel’s family situation appear lifeless on the massive canvas. Hermanus points to an overarching story, losing in the process the pulse of the material there. With the ornate facade decoration, the love story itself disappears.
Director: Oliver Hermanus. Starring: Paul Mescal, Josh O’Connor, Chris Cooper, Molly Price, Raphael Sparky, Hadley Robinson. Certificate 15, 127 minutes
“The History of Sound” will be released in cinemas from January 23