Sound of Noise

Name: Sound of Noise
Director: Johannes Stjärne Nilsson
Released: 2010

2010

Synopsis

A tone-deaf cop works to track down a group of guerilla percussionists whose anarchic public performances are terrorizing the city.

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The A.V. Club
What binds the entertaining crime movie to its YouTube-ready musical interludes is the unspoken yearning of its two leads: he for the world of silence in which he'd rather live, and she for all the sounds that slip by every second, uncontrolled and unappreciated.
80
Los Angeles Times
Without pounding home its avant-garde cred, this fresh ode to found sound and the music of silence casts an amused gaze at careerism, classical-music reverence and notions of artistic purity and ends with a pitch-perfect change of tune.
80
The New York Times
What follows is a character study mixed with outlandish crime procedural. Everyone's quite serious about the joke, without a moment of Adam Sandler-style "look at how cute we are" that would only dilute the film's appeal. Sound of Noise is a dry treat - a solid, self-aware cult pleasure.
75
Slant Magazine
The film is ultimately winning because of its devilish anarchic streak, aiming its arrows at the stuffiness of the traditional musical establishment.
70
The Hollywood Reporter
The basic premise of this delightful comedy from Sweden is one of the most imaginative you'll ever see. It's all based on music -- raw, elemental and percussive -- out of which genuine laughs are wrung from beginning to end.
70
Variety
A delightful comic cocktail of modern city symphony, police procedural and love story.
67
Austin Chronicle
Unique to a fault, Sound of Noise is a daft police procedural, an absurdist comedy, a piece of metaphysical agitprop, a music-performance film with a bit of story attached, and/or none of the above.
60
Time Out
The backbeat anarchy is fun while it lasts, but without a persuasive purpose, it's all just noise in the end.

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