Oliver Hermanus' The History of Sound lands somewhere between expectations and the underwhelming pic it flirts with becoming.

But don’t make any comparisons to Brokeback Mountain, please per the movie’s star Paul Mescal and South African director Oliver Hermanus. Mescal plays Lionel, a talented singer from rural Kentucky ...

That’s a question confronted by Oliver Hermanus ’s new film The History of Sound, which premiered here in Cannes on May 21. The film, based on a short story by Ben Shattuck, is about two young men who ...

In Oliver Hermanus' drama, two music students form a profound attachment in early 20th century New England, reuniting years later to travel the Maine backwoods collecting traditional folk songs.

In Oliver Hermanus’s Cannes Competition film The History of Sound, Paul Mescal stars as Lionel, a Kentucky-born singer who connects with composition student David (Josh O’Connor) and forms a ...

Acclaimed director Oliver Hermanus (“Beauty,” “Living”) is back at the Cannes Film Festival after almost two decades, ready to bring some movie star heat and stir emotions with a lush ...

With a screenplay by Ben Shattuck adapting his own short story, director Oliver Hermanus takes a small, poignant idea and warps it into a two-hour film. It is 1917 when Kentucky farm boy Lionel ...

We look at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival award winners that could show up at the Oscars, with 'Sentimental Value' most likely ...