Neighbouring Sounds (2012)
Average Rating: 8/10
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Fresh: 32 | Rotten: 2
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Average Rating: 8/10
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A history of violence and oppression threatens to engulf the residents of an affluent seaside community in Neighboring Sounds, a thrilling debut from filmmaker Kleber Mendonca Filho. A palpable sense of unease hangs over a single city block in the coastal town of Recife, Brazil. Home to prosperous families and the servants who work for them, the area is ruled by an aging patriarch and his sons. When a private security firm is reluctantly brought in to protect the residents from a recent spate of
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One of the strongest feature debuts of the last decade ...
Top CriticThe film promises a little more than it delivers, and at over two hours there are moments where it drags. But as a statement of intent, 'Neighbouring Sounds' is incredibly bold.
Economically packed with social issues of wealth, property and class, and deft cinematic references, this is a movie built for the modern global high-rise condo market.
Similar to the slow-creep style of Dogtooth director Giorgos Lanthimos, the narrative unfolds with escalating tension, the cause of which is heard and felt but not always seen.
"Neighboring Sounds" presents itself not only as a character study, but also as an authentic socio-economic class study.
A Brazilian drama with a powerful and enveloping sense of place ...
It's a remarkable, understated fable about social strata and urban paranoia, although its stretches of plotlessness may push patience at 124 minutes.
With each scene, Kleber Mendonça Filho adds layers of meaning to his characters and the neighbourhood, many that no doubt can only be properly appreciated by Brazilian audiences.
A hugely impressive debut feature from Kleber Mendonça Filho.
An absorbing and extremely promising film.
Has echoes of Michael Haneke as it explores the guilty secrets and bitter resentments lurking beneath the calm, respectable surface of a community in affluent Recife.
It is too long and sometimes drags, but burrs into the memory through naturalistic acting and a real sense of the perils of Brazilian life.
For those who don't mind that lingering, almost voyeuristic display of human behaviour, this confident and promising debut is a must-see.
Violence feels just around the corner, and we're kept guessing where it might come from.
Neighbouring Sounds is scary, funny, mischievous, intelligent, magisterial: a picture of man and woman as social animal in which the animal never lurks far beneath the social.
Filho's use of space is masterful, as fine as Antonioni or Polanski, with long Steadicam tracks and crisp wide shots giving us a fine-grained rendering of the block's communal and private spaces.
This is a movie to get lost in. Kleber Mendonça Filho - you're on our list.
With its inventive sound, masterly lensing and diverse mix of characters, Filho reveals a society haunted by both its past and by the threat of future violence.
Neighbouring Sounds might be considered something of a horror movie for Brazil's urban bourgeoisie. One of Filho's most audacious tactics is to package what might've otherwise been an Altmanesque ensemble drama as a sort of existential thriller.
Neighbouring Sounds is a clever, original drama of social concern, with trivial incidents barely masking deep social fissures.
O Som ao Redor se revela não um estudo de personagens, mas um autêntico estudo de classe.
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Foreign Titles
- Neighbouring Sounds (O som ao redor) (DE)
- Neighbouring Sounds (UK)
