125 - Berberian Sound Studio

    An Englishman is hired to do the sound work for an Italian horror film.
    I wish I had more to say about this movie, but it's a very difficult movie to put into words.
    There isn't much of a story, except that the director, and probably the producer, are far too demanding, and are fairly cruel.  The sound engineer (I think that's his position, although he seems to do occasional foley work, and there's someone else in the studio who has a different sound jobs) feels increasingly isolated, partly because of the language barrier, but also because he's being picked on most of the time.
    It's a fascinating movie, if only because we learn next to nothing about the movie they're recording for.  We hear what scenes are about, and we hear the sound and music for it, but we never see any footage.  We're left to figure things out for ourselves.
    I think there was a lot I didn't understand in this movie, and I'm reluctant to judge it.  The sound is designed for experiencing in a theater, and there's a huge amount of dialogue I couldn't understand.  Not just the stuff in Italian, but even lines in English were often whispered or mumbled.
    It's hard to describe this as falling into a particular genre, either.  There's the sounds of horror, but most of the movie is about a sense of isolation and becoming consumed with your work.