Film Review: Berberian Sound Studio (2012)

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SYNOPSIS:

A sound engineer’s work for an Italian horror studio becomes a terrifying case of life imitating art.

REVIEW:

There is a scene, early on in “Berberian Sound Studio“, in which an hirsute Foley artist mutely and mercilessly bludgeons a watermelon to a shattered pulp, while his partner hacks and stabs a second melon. The whole thing is shot with the kind of fetishistic close-ups and aggressive editing of a slasher film. What … Continue reading

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