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Berberian Sound Studio
88 minutes
This crafty British feature starts off as a meta-movie romp and a loving tribute to 70s Italian horror; eventually, director Peter Strickland reaches for something more significant that he never quite finds, but by then you may be too entertained to care. A mild-mannered audio technician from the UK (Toby Jones) arrives in Italy to mix the soundtrack for a cheapo shocker about witches and warlocks; before long, the loutish filmmakers (Cosimo Fusco, Antonio Mancino), the shadowy, decrepit studio, and the movie's stomach-turning violence begin to get to him. Strickland never shows the in-studio projection screen, so the picture is left to the imagination; the sound component is completely visualized, however, down to the crew's endless evisceration of fruits and vegetables to create the Foley effects for all the chopping and slashing. I haven't seen something so in love with its own sound design since The Conversation. In English and subtitled Italian.
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