First Clip From Peter Strickland's Giallo-Influenced BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO
Director Peter Strickland created quite a buzz on the arthouse circuit in 2009 with his debut feature Katalin Varga. He's doing something a little different with feature number two.
Berberian Sound Studio is Strickland's ode to / reworking of classic giallo film, the story of an awkward UK man who travels for a job in an Italian dubbing studio only to discover that he'll be working on the most extreme exploitation films. The picture is soon to debut at the Edinburgh Film Festival, where they describe it like this:
Berberian Sound Studio is Strickland's ode to / reworking of classic giallo film, the story of an awkward UK man who travels for a job in an Italian dubbing studio only to discover that he'll be working on the most extreme exploitation films. The picture is soon to debut at the Edinburgh Film Festival, where they describe it like this:
The first clip for the film has turned up via The Guardian and you can check it out below. Looking good so far!In the 1970s, a British sound technician (Toby Jones) is brought to Italy to work on the sound effects for a gruesome horror film. His nightmarish task slowly takes over his psyche, driving him to confront his own past. Berberian Sound Studio is many things: an anti-horror film, a stylistic tour de force, and a dream of cinema. As such, it offers a kind of pleasure that is rare in films, while recreating in a highly original way the pleasures of Italian horror cinema.
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