Oliver Hermanus takes two of the most romantic leading men in modern cinema and directs them in the most sexless and unsentimental way possible. A film has so much potential, but only shallowly ...

In the film "The History Of Sound," two young men search for authentic folk tunes as they hike through the backwoods of Maine. Critic Bob Mondello says the World War I era romance is a story of music ...

There are a lot of movies about the transformative power of music. There are few that take it to such literal and metaphysical heights as The History of Sound. A triumph of metaphor and screen ...

Thu, September 11, 2025 at 6:26 PM UTC The grandiose, sweeping emotional gestures toward repression and latent desire out of something like “Brokeback Mountain” are nowhere here, Hermanus instead ...

Oliver Hermanus's The History of Sound is visually, audibly, and emotionally exquisite. Soon, the friendship blossoms into a romance, but the relationship is cut short when David is drafted to fight ...

There's loving music and enjoying music, and then there's being able to taste sound and see colors in sound. That is how Paul Mescal's Lionel experiences music. It's more than just music to him, and ...

Official image from ‘The History of Sound’ courtesy of Universal Pictures. As the lights turned back on in the theater after Oliver Hermanus’ (“Living”) World War I romance “The History of Sound,” the ...

The History of Sound (now streaming on MUBI) unites two burgeoning stars (and sex symbols) in Josh O’Connor and Paul Mescal, who play lovers in an era when two men kissing was something to be shunned ...