This time of year heralds the rising of the award nominee films so it’s typically a good time to head to the cinema if you don’t go often.
The History of Sound strikes me as classic awards bait. It’s good but perhaps not quite as good as it thinks.
Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor star as Lionel and David, young men who meet in 1917 in the music school at the Boston Conservatory and fall in love. WWI separates them initially but they are reunited by music and love before again taking divergent paths.
This film is lovely but slow. Gentle but a little too gentle. Mescal and O’Connor are both excellent but overall I’d say this film is a nice-to-see not must-see feature of awards season.
The History of Sound opens on 18 December and runs for 128 minutes which is at least 20 minutes too long unfortunately.