Synopsis
A look at the trials and tribulations of The Compson siblings, living in the deep south during the early part of the 20th century.
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Cast
- James FrancoBenjy Compson
- Tim Blake NelsonFather
- Scott HazeJason Compson IV
- Loretta DevineDilsey
- Ahna O'ReillyCaddy Compson
- Joey KingMiss Quentin
- Jacob LoebQuentin Compson
- Janet JonesCaroline Bascomb Compson
- Dwight HenryRoskus
- Logan Marshall-GreenDalton Ames
Recommendations
- 50
The Hollywood Reporter
There’s certainly an overall sense of a formerly rich family’s fortunes dwindling, both economically and emotionally, but the three sections don’t add up to something more than the sum of their parts. - 50
The Playlist
If ‘Dying’‘s main issue was a surfeit of ideas, ’Sound’ feels like it suffers from a paucity. - 40
The Guardian
So bogged down by form, Franco fails to get his head up enough to think about content. - 40
The Telegraph
Faulkner’s book, an oblique and complex tale of the American South’s festering decline, hasn’t so much been reworked for cinema as simply dumped on the screen in handfuls, and the result is a swirling mess. - 40
Variety
The Sound and the Fury is certainly a folly, failing to capture the weird, entrancing, often maddening ambiance of the great writer’s elliptical masterpiece, and its surfeit of half-baked film-student flourishes and needless cameos occasionally give it an amateur-hour feel. - 30
We Got This Covered
One can say that Faulkner is unfilmable, but any work will be unfilmable when it is being adapted by a talentless director. In this case, the fault of the film’s issues stem completely from Franco and not at all with the difficulty in Faulkner’s writing. Hopefully, after two failed outings, the actor will learn to leave Faulkner’s masterful work alone. Although knowing him, I wouldn’t be surprised to see him try his hand at adapting one of the author’s works again.
