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One of the strongest feature debuts of the last decade ... Apr 5, 2013 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
One of the strongest feature debuts of the last decade ...
Robert Abele
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. Mar 22, 2013 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
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.
Derek Malcolm
Violence feels just around the corner, and we're kept guessing where it might come from. Mar 21, 2013 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Violence feels just around the corner, and we're kept guessing where it might come from.
Steve Rose
This is a movie to get lost in. Kleber Mendonça Filho - you're on our list. Mar 21, 2013 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
This is a movie to get lost in. Kleber Mendonça Filho - you're on our list.
David Jenkins
The 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. Mar 19, 2013 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
The 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.
Tom Huddleston
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. Mar 8, 2013 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
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.
Liam Lacey
Filho places great emphasis on his film's sound design, carefully constructing a vibrant patchwork quilt of living, breathing characters... The results are often awe-inspiring. Feb 12, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Filho places great emphasis on his film's sound design, carefully constructing a vibrant patchwork quilt of living, breathing characters... The results are often awe-inspiring.
Daniel Green
It's a film where nothing can happen, but at the same time, everything happens. Nov 7, 2018 | Full Review…
It's a film where nothing can happen, but at the same time, everything happens.
Morgan Rojas
Rural and urban, property lines and blood feuds, family histories and petty battles . . . in a film that reframes Brazil as a place where blood is thicker and murkier than water, even in homes that seem so clean and white and safe. Dec 27, 2013 | Full Review…
Rural and urban, property lines and blood feuds, family histories and petty battles . . . in a film that reframes Brazil as a place where blood is thicker and murkier than water, even in homes that seem so clean and white and safe.
Brian Gibson
Entrancing but vaguely discomfiting. Jul 11, 2013 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
Entrancing but vaguely discomfiting.
T'Cha Dunlevy
Empty, anxious and puzzling: Neighboring Sounds has an intriguing tone of half-seen unhappiness that never pays off either in black humour or the terror of modern existence. Jun 14, 2013 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…
Empty, anxious and puzzling: Neighboring Sounds has an intriguing tone of half-seen unhappiness that never pays off either in black humour or the terror of modern existence.
Jay Stone
It's a remarkable, understated fable about social strata and urban paranoia, although its stretches of plotlessness may push patience at 124 minutes. Apr 8, 2013 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
It's a remarkable, understated fable about social strata and urban paranoia, although its stretches of plotlessness may push patience at 124 minutes.
A brilliant and extremely thought-provoking Brazilian film that uses a street in Recife as a microcosm for the social issues of middle class, exposing its latent bourgeois fears while drawing a clever parallel between a guilty past and the promise of a violent future.
Super Reviewer
n "Neighboring Sounds," Joao(Gustavo Jahn) has spent the night getting acquainted physically with Sofia(Irma Brown). In the morning, they spend a lot of the time collecting their clothing and avoiding the maid and children. Then, Sofia finds her car stereo stolen. Luckily, Joao has a culprit in mind, Dinho(Yuri Holanda) who is also apparently responsible for every bit of crime around the neighborhood. What he is not responsible however is the dog that keeps Bia(Maeve Jenkings) awake. So, instead of taking sleeping pills herself, she uses them on the dog. "Neighboring Sounds" is a finely tuned look at class politics in Recife, Brazil where classes live close to each other, separated from each other by concrete walls. On the plus side, there is plenty of work to go around in security, even if it is very boring. And with such differences in reality, it is no surprise that the dream sequences work as well as they do, as does a key sequence where an old man goes swimming which makes the movie's point wonderfully and subtly. What does not work as well is Bia's battle with the dog, as I'm not quite sure what that symbolizes.
'Neighbouring Sounds'. A wonderful mix of direction, sound design, classes and characters in this suburban microcosm of Brazil.
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