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A sound engineer's work for an Italian horror studio becomes a terrifying case of life imitating art.
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| Daily Telegraph (UK)Robbie CollinIt is one of the year’s very best films, a great, rumbling thunderclap of genius. |
| Cinema ScopeJason AndersonThat keen awareness of aural matters also allows director Peter Strickland to convey the engineer's deteriorating hold on reality with genuine subtlety. |
| The SpectatorDeborah RossI have never encountered anything quite so auditorily menacing... I promise you have never seen, or heard, anything like it, and Toby Jones's performance is fantastically gripping. |
| GuardianPeter BradshawUtterly distinctive and all but unclassifiable, a musique concrète nightmare, a psycho-metaphysical implosion of anxiety, with strange-tasting traces of black comedy and movie-buff riffs. It is seriously weird and seriously good. |
| HeyUGuysJamie NeishWhat Berberian Sound Studio accomplishes is a return to a more basic style of film-making than we've become accustomed to in recent years. |
| Projected FiguresAnton BitelStrickland disorients viewers with a sly meta-horror that reflects upon both the artifice that goes into genre films, and the uncomfortable reality that can underlie their vicious depiction of women... It's the giallo Lynch might have made. |
| Paste MagazineTim GriersonMuch like this film's main character, you can't quite explain what's got you so afraid -- you just know that you are. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonRegardless of what you call it, it's a highly accomplished, intelligent, and effective piece of work, perhaps the best genre film I've seen since The Innkeepers. |
| Boston GlobePeter KeoughThough “Berberian” bogs down a bit in its infernal spiral, Strickland proves himself to be a rising talent — a master of sound and fury both. |
| Film Journal InternationalMaitland McDonaghAs IFC clearly realizes, Berberian Sound Studio is a niche item, but a niche item whose target audience should embrace it with a hearty Ciao, bella! |