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In Oliver Hermanus' drama, two music students form a profound attachment in early 20th century New England, reuniting years later to travel the Maine backwoods collecting traditional folk songs.
Oliver Hermanus' The History of Sound lands somewhere between expectations and the underwhelming pic it flirts with becoming.
Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor brought the heat to Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday night with Oliver Hermanus’ “The History of Sound,” which earned a six-minute standing ovation. While Mescal ...
Oliver Hermanus' The History Of Sound is both musically inert and narratively repetitive, turning its queer romance into a ...
That’s a question confronted by Oliver Hermanus ’s new film The History of Sound, which premiered here in Cannes on May 21. The film, based on a short story by Ben Shattuck, is about two young men who ...
In Oliver Hermanus’s Cannes Competition film The History of Sound, Paul Mescal stars as Lionel, a Kentucky-born singer who connects with composition student David (Josh O’Connor) and forms a ...
Acclaimed director Oliver Hermanus (“Beauty,” “Living”) is back at the Cannes Film Festival after almost two decades, ready to bring some movie star heat and stir emotions with a lush ...
and mortality. Dec. 15, 2022 A key theme that emerged in the script process, which was developed with South African director Oliver Hermanus (“Moffie”) over months of video calls during the ...
One critic has labelled the flick, which won a six-minute standing ovation at Cannes, "the Brokeback of today" The post The History of Sound: First reviews are in of Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor’s ...
Oliver Hermanus is no stranger to the festival or awards circuit, but his latest film, “Living,” is a very different story from those he has directed in the past, which have dealt with issues ...
“Living,” directed by Oliver Hermanus and starring Bill Nighy and Aimee Lou Wood, comes from a screenplay that Kazuo Ishiguro wrote, adapting it into English from Akira Kurosawa’s Japanese ...
Oliver Hermanus’s film Living appeared at Toronto with a clutch of prestigious festival slots already under its belt, having premiered at Sundance earlier in the year and followed that with ...