O Som ao Redor (Neighbouring Sounds)

2012

O Som ao Redor (Neighbouring Sounds)

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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 petty crime, it unleashes the fears, anxieties and resentments of a divided society still haunted by its troubled past. -- (C) Cinema Guild

Cast

Irandhir Santos
as Clodoaldo
Gustavo Jahn
as João
Maeve Jinkings
as Bia
W.J. Solha
as Francisco
Irma Brown
as Sofia
Lula Terra
as Anco
Yuri Holanda
as Dinho
Sebastião Formiga
as Claudio
Clébia Souza
as Luciene
Albert Tenório
as Ronaldo
Nivaldo Nascimento
as Fernando
Felipe Bandeira
as Nelson
Clara Pinheiro De Oliveira
as Fernanda
Mauricéia Conceiçao
as Mariá
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  • One of the strongest feature debuts of the last decade ...

    Apr 5, 2013 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…

    Robert Abele

    Los Angeles Times
    Top Critic

  • An absorbing and extremely promising film.

    Mar 22, 2013 | Rating: 4/5

    Tim Robey

    Daily Telegraph (UK)
    Top Critic

  • 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…

    Derek Malcolm

    London Evening Standard
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  • Violence feels just around the corner, and we're kept guessing where it might come from.

    Mar 21, 2013 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

    Steve Rose

    Guardian
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  • 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.

    Mar 21, 2013 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…

    Nigel Andrews

    Financial Times
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  • This is a movie to get lost in. Kleber Mendonça Filho - you're on our list.

    Mar 21, 2013 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

    David Jenkins

    Little White Lies
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  • Dec 03, 2014
    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.
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  • Mar 23, 2013
    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.
    Carlos M Super Reviewer
  • Jun 15, 2012
    'Neighbouring Sounds'. A wonderful mix of direction, sound design, classes and characters in this suburban microcosm of Brazil.
    c0up   Super Reviewer
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