Oliver Hermanus' The History Of Sound is both musically inert and narratively repetitive, turning its queer romance into a ...

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

In Oliver Hermanus' drama, two music students form a profound attachment in early 20th century New England, reuniting years ...

On questionnaires for movie research screenings they always ask “Choose words that best describe the film.” Okay, here are the words I would write down to best encapsulate the new film The History of ...

The Cannes Film Festival competition this evening tuned into The History of Sound, director Oliver Hermanus’ first time in the main theater. It was met with a nine-minute ovation that only slowed as ...

In a way, then, The History of Sound must count as a daring project: an expensive Hollywood film in which two of cinema's buzziest male actors are cast as gay lovers. Subject matter aside ...

A period piece gay romance years in the making, director Oliver Hermanus’s The History Of Sound has finally been unveiled in competition at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival, and early ...

By contrast, “The History of Sound,” which might be described as a minimalist “Masterpiece Theatre”-on-the-frontier riff on “Brokeback,” is a drama that mostly just sits there.

Don’t let the title fool you: “The History of Sound” is an awfully muted affair. Muted in color, performance, tenor and tone, Olivier Hermanus’ doleful ethnomusicologist romance premiered ...

This year, he’s back with two movies in contention for the Palme d’Or: Kelly Reichardt’s art heist picture The Mastermind and Oliver Hermanus’ The History of Sound, in which O’Connor ...

By David Rooney Chief Film Critic Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor offer more proof that they are among the best contemporary actors we have in The History of Sound, a resonant account of a tender ...