Berberian Sound Studio (2012 88min.) [Film4 12.55am wednesday &+1]
Horror starring Toby Jones. A reserved sound engineer from Surrey is hired to work on a grubby Italian horror film and becomes ever more disturbed by the experience.
Toby Jones is superb as the shy man thrown into a world he neither likes nor understands as he works with a group of largely unlikeable people on his newest project; including the world's most unhelpful secretary, a sleazy director, a demented producer and surly voice talent.
Some knowledge or affection for 60s and 70s Italian horror cinema might be helpful; but Peter Strickland's film (like his previous work Katrina Varga) is a very watchable story of an individual adrift in an alien landscape attempting to make sense of the world in which they find themselves.
The sound design is (as you would expect) spectacular and the final reel drags the viewer into Jones' nightmare in a most intriguing way.
A very interesting, well made, curio.
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