Sydenham Film Club presents BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO

BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO
THURSDAY 31 JANUARY 2013
Peter Strickland, UK 2012. 92mins. Certificate 15

★★★★★ “Toby Jones gives the performance of his career, and Peter Strickland has emerged as a key British film-maker of his generation.” GUARDIAN
★★★★ “A stylistically ambitious, morally radical, thematically complex work… Strickland’s vision deserves the highest praise.” TIME OUT
★★★★ “A dark sibling to The Artist, Peter Strickland’s psychodrama wants to recalibrate how we listen to the movies” TELEGRAPH

A sound engineer’s work for an Italian horror studio becomes a terrifying case of life imitating art.

The second feature by British film-maker Peter Strickland (Katalin Varga) is a psychological thriller set in a 1970s Italian horror film studio. Toby Jones (The Girl, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) stars as Gilderoy, a foley artist working on the audio track for an Italian giallo film, The Equestrian Vortex. While we as an audience see nothing of this film, its low-grade brutality slowly bleeds into Gilderoy’s psyche.

One of Sight & Sound‘s top ten films of 2012, Berberian Sound Studio is dark, funny and hypnotic, with the best use of sound since Coppola’s The Conversation.

Where: Golden Lion pub, 116 Sydenham Road SE26 5JX MAP
When: 7.30pm Thursday 31 January 2013
Tickets: £5 on the door
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“If you’re open to films that fearlessly twist the conventions, and that mine the language of sound and image for their own strange potential, you’ll get a kick from this rivetingly inventive, abrasively un-British piece of nightmare cinema.” INDEPENDENT