As we have been with everything The History of Sound related since it was first announced we were obviously all over the above photo the minute it made its way online, which was before the movie even started filming. But now that the movie is hitting theaters tomorrow and the critical reception has been generally cool toward the film I'm re-posting it right now because I probably won't get another chance through awards-season -- I don't forsee this movie getting much love in the months ahead. Which is a real shame if you ask me because I love the film and think it's doing some really lovely and important stuff, all of which I dive into in my review at Pajiba, which you can go read right now. I think the movie is doing something different than what people expected from it, and I hope that it'll be seen for what it is -- a deeply lovely and heartbroken tribute to the stories untold -- down the road. I'd say it's close in mood and tone to something of Terrence Davies -- abstract and intellectual. If that helps. Anyway I very much like the film and I hope you do too. (I'm also pretty proud of the piece I wrote, so I hope you like it.)
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I was really put off by the director's comments that the movie is more "profound" because there's no gay sex in it (still time for a straight sex scene of course). This movie has nothing on God's Own Country or All of Us Strangers, both far more "profound" and still showing that gay men have sex drives.
But there is a gay sex scene in it. One that is just as explicit as the straight one.
Thank you for the beautiful review. I look forward to seeing the film.
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