92 min
Director: Peter Strickland
Writer: Peter Strickland
Stars: Toby Jones, Tonia Sotiropoulou, Cosimo Fusco
Country: UK
Language: English | Italian
In the 1970s, a British sound technician is brought to Italy to work on the sound effects for a gruesome horror film. His nightmarish task slowly takes over his psyche, driving him to confront his own past. Berberian Sound Studio is many things: an anti-horror film, a stylistic tour de force, and a dream of cinema. As such, it offers a kind of pleasure that is rare in films, while recreating in a highly original way the pleasures of Italian horror cinema.(Rotten Tomatoes)
Berberian Sound Studio was previewed at London FrightFest Film Festival in August 2012 and at the 2012 Edinburgh International Film Festival, where The Daily Telegraph described it as the "stand-out movie".
Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian has described the film as "seriously weird and seriously good" and said that it marks Strickland's emergence as "a key British film-maker of his generation".
Sight & Sound film magazine listed the film at #5 on its list of best films of 2012.The film tied with A Royal Affair as Mark Kermode's best film of the year.
The film won awards at the 2012 British Independent Film Awards Best Director, Best Actor and Best Achievement In Production.
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