Berberian Sound Studio (2012) on Netflix
NR20121h 32mDramaHorrorThriller
British sound engineer Gilderoy arrives at an Italian studio to work on a film he thinks is about horses. It is a giallo, The Equestrian Vortex, and he must build its sounds.
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Plot summary
In 1970s Italy, the Berberian film studio brings in Gilderoy, a British sound engineer, to build the soundtrack for a production he takes to be about horses. Producer Francesco corrects him: the picture is a giallo called The Equestrian Vortex, and it is full of torture. Gilderoy goes to work in the studio, using vegetables to make the sounds of violence and layering the voice recordings of Silvia and Claudia into the score. Director Giancarlo Santini refuses to call the film a horror picture. Away from his mother at home, Gilderoy feels increasingly out of his depth among colleagues who are short with him and with each other.
Cast
- Layla Amiras Equestrian Girl
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Berberian Sound Studio (2012)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Peter Strickland first made Berberian Sound Studio as a short film in 2005, before his first feature Katalin Varga in 2006.
- Strickland said he wanted to make a film where the mechanics of cinema usually hidden are made visible, with the film itself out of view.
