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trixster
loyalfromlondon
Joined: Wed Oct 13, 2004 6:31 pm Posts: 19697 Location: ville-marie
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Sound of My Voice
Sound of My VoiceQuote: Sound of My Voice is an American psychological thriller about a supposed cult directed by Zal Batmanglij. The film was co-written by Zal Batmanglij and Brit Marling. It premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. It was also selected as part of the 2011 SXSW Film Festival. The film was released by Fox Searchlight Pictures on April 27, 2012. The first 12 minutes of it may be previewed on soundofmyvoicemovie.com.
The film was also named among the Top Indie Films at Festivals in 2011 on IndieWire's criticWIRE.
Manohla Dargis writes in her review in The New York Times: "Nobody is gutted in “Sound of My Voice,” a smart, effectively unsettling movie about the need to believe and the hard, cruel arts of persuasion. But over time the men and women who meet in a mysterious house in an anonymous Los Angeles neighborhood — where they shed their clothes and cleanse their bodies in a ritual — are opened up bit by bit, wound by wound, until they’re sobbing and laughing, their insides smeared across the carpet."
It is rated R for language including some sexual references, and brief drug use.
_________________Magic Mike wrote: zwackerm wrote: If John Wick 2 even makes 30 million I will eat 1,000 shoes. Same. Algren wrote: I don't think. I predict.
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Mon May 07, 2012 11:50 pm |
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David
Pure Phase
Joined: Tue Feb 15, 2005 7:33 am Posts: 34865 Location: Maryland
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Re: Sound of My Voice
_________________1. The Lost City of Z - 2. A Cure for Wellness - 3. Phantom Thread - 4. T2 Trainspotting - 5. Detroit - 6. Good Time - 7. The Beguiled - 8. The Florida Project - 9. Logan and 10. Molly's Game
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Tue May 08, 2012 12:55 am |
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Magic Mike
Wallflower
Joined: Mon Oct 25, 2004 4:53 am Posts: 34878 Location: Minnesota
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Re: Sound of My Voice
With last year's "Another Earth" and now "Sound of My Voice," Brit Marling is proving to be a talent to watch for fans of thought-provoking cinema. She has written a provocative script and gives an absolutely spell-binding performance as the leader of a cult who claims to be from the future. She's both scary and inviting, and as ridiculous as the concept of her actually being from the future seems it's almost easy to understand how someone could buy into it.
As fascinating as I found the film I will say that the ending is a little on the unsatisfying side. It raises some intriguing questions and I have no problem with a film leaving viewers to draw their own conclusions, but it's almost like they ran into a dead-end and didn't know where to go with the film so it just ends. Either conclusion you draw seems problematic. I'll really have to watch it again and maybe I'll change my mind. It's certainly worth repeat viewings and I can't wait to see what Marling does next.
8/10 (A-)
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