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| studio = Bliss<br />Dfm Fiktion
| distributor = [[Nordisk Film]] <small>(Sweden)</small><br />[[Wild Bunch (film company)|Wild Bunch Distribution]] <small>(France)</small>
| released = {{Film date|df=y|2010|5|18|[[2010 Cannes Film Festival|Cannes Film Festival]]|2010|12|25|Sweden|2010|12|29|France}}
| runtime = 102 minutes
| country = Sweden<br />France
| gross =
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'''''Sound of Noise''''' is a 2010 [[Swedish language|Swedish]]-[[French language|French]] [[Comedy film|comedy]]-[[Crime film|crime]] [[film]] written and directed by Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjärne Nilsson. It tells the story of a group of musicians[[musician]]s who illegally perform music on objects in the various institutions of a city. The film is a follow-up to the''[[Music 2001For shortOne filmApartment ''And Six Drummers|Music for One Apartment and Six Drummers]]'', whichthe was2001 short film made by the same peopledirectors and followedwith the same basic concept. The title comes from the Italian futurist [[Luigi Russolo]]'s 1913 manifesto ''[[The Art of Noises]]''.<ref>{{Cite webnews|last=Lumholdt|first=Jan|date=2010-05-14|url=http://www.svd.se/kulturnoje/nyheter/de-kan-cannes_4713013.svd|title=De kan Cannes|language=Swedish|work=[[Svenska Dagbladet]]|accessdateaccess-date=2010-09-28}}</ref>
==Plot==
A group of six anarchist drummers led by musician Sanna Persson and a conductor named Magnus set out to make music with objects that are generally considered non-musical. They plan out a concert with four humorously titled movements to be played across the city after carefully analyzing what objects can be used to make good music. All the while, the group is pursued by Amadeus Warnebring, a tone-deaf policeman born into a distinguished musical family<ref>{{cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Sound of Noise|url=http://www.siff.net/festival/film/detail.aspx?id=44283&fid=206 |titleurl-status=2011 Seattle International Film Festival dead|accessdate=December 19, 2011 |deadurl=yes |archiveurlarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110918084948/http://www.siff.net/festival/film/detail.aspx?id=44283&FID=206 |archivedatearchive-date=September 18, 2011|access-date=December 19, 2011|dfwebsite=[[Seattle International Film Festival|SIFF]]}}</ref> who hates the sound of music.
The group begins by playing in a surgery room using a notable TV reporter who has been admitted to the hospital for hemorrhoid surgery.<ref>{{Cite nameweb|last="lee 2010">Lee, |first=Noah|date=26 (September 26, 2010).|title=Sound [httpof Noise|url=https://www.filmthreat.com/reviewsuncategorized/26117sound-of-noise/#ixzz2HRhdkMg2 Sound of Noise.] ''|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-10-09|website=[[Film Threat]]''|language=en-US}}</ref> Their next piece is set in a bank where they ostensibly hold up the staff and customers. They then feed banknotes into the shredding machine for a distorted bass sound. The next piece uses bulldozers thumping the ground at the fountain in front of an opera house. For the crescendo, they strike the fountain knocking it to the ground. The last piece involves them hanging from high tension power cables and playing the suspended cables like violins.
Warnebring eventually comes to realize that the objects and people used by the anarchists as instruments are rendered silent to his ears after the fact, due to his tone-deafness. From this he forms a plan to force the drummers into using the entire city as an instrument by way of rhythmically controlling the power supply. The plan succeeds: Persson observes that the ambient sounds around her have become musical, while Warnebring can hear no such sounds. The film ends with the anarchists exiled from the city and performing as a lounge act aswhile Warnebring enjoys a silent orchestral concert elsewhere.
==Cast==
==Production==
The music was composed for the film by Magnus Börjeson while the story was written <ref>{{Cite web|last=Vickhoff|first=Alexander|date=2008-08-01|title=Jakt på sex mystiska trummisar på Operan|url=http://www.sydsvenskan.se/kultur-och-nojen/article352771/Jakt-pa-sex-mystiska-trummisar-pa-Operan.html|titleurl-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111005172742/http://www.sydsvenskan.se/kultur-och-nojen/article352771/Jakt på -pa-sex -mystiska -trummisar-pa-Operan.html|archive-date=5 påOctober Operan2011|languageaccess-date=Swedish2010-09-28|work=[[Sydsvenskan]]|accessdatelanguage=2010-09-28sv}}</ref> and completed by Fred Avril. ''Sound of Noise'' was initiated by BLISS from France. The film is a coproduction between BLISS and Dfm fiktion.<ref name=cannespress>{{Cite web|url=http://www.semainedelacritique.com/EN/films/2010/soundof/SOUND-OF-NOISE_DP_CANNES_INTER%5B9%5D.pdf|title=Sound of Noise PressKit|publisher=[[International Critics' Week]]|accessdateaccess-date=2010-09-28|deadurlurl-status=yesdead|archiveurlarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615180230/http://www.semainedelacritique.com/EN/films/2010/soundof/SOUND-OF-NOISE_DP_CANNES_INTER%5B9%5D.pdf|archivedatearchive-date=2011-06-15|df=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sfi.se/en-gb/Swedish-film-database/Item/?itemid=66620&type=MOVIE&iv=Company|title=Sound of Noise (2010): Companies|work=[[Swedish Film Database]]|publisher=[[Swedish Film Institute]]|accessdateaccess-date=2010-09-28}}</ref> It received ten million [[Swedish krona|kronor]] from the [[Swedish Film Institute]].<ref name="filmnyheterna">{{Cite web|last=Roger|first=Susanne|date=2008-09-30|title=Långfilmsdebutanter får 10 miljoner|url=http://www.filmnyheterna.se/Arkiverade-nyheter/Nyheter/2008/Langfilmsdebutanter-far-10-miljoner/|titleurl-status=Långfilmsdebutanter får dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120312060752/http://www.filmnyheterna.se/Arkiverade-nyheter/Nyheter/2008/Langfilmsdebutanter-far-10 -miljoner/|languagearchive-date=Swedish12 March 2012|access-date=2010-09-28|work=FilmnyheternaFilmNyheterna|publisher=[[Swedish Film Institute]]|accessdatelanguage=2010-09-28sv}}</ref> The film was shot in [[CinemaScope]] and filming took place in [[Malmö]] from 28 July to 1 October 2008.<ref name=filmnyheterna /><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sfi.se/en-gb/Swedish-film-database/Item/?itemid=66620&type=MOVIE&iv=RecordingPlace|title=Sound of Noise (2010): Filming locations|work=[[Swedish Film Database]]|publisher=[[Swedish Film Institute]]|accessdateaccess-date=2010-10-04}}</ref>
==Release==
The film premiered on 18 May 2010 in the [[International Critics' Week]] of the [[2010 Cannes Film Festival|63rd Cannes Film Festival]].<ref name=cannespress /> It has been released in Sweden on Christmas Day 2010 through [[Nordisk Film]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sfi.se/en-gb/Swedish-film-database/Item/?itemid=66620&type=MOVIE&iv=Basic|title=Sound of Noise (2010): Basic facts|work=[[Swedish Film Database]]|publisher=[[Swedish Film Institute]]|accessdateaccess-date=2010-09-28}}</ref> [[Wild Bunch (film company)|Wild Bunch Distribution]] released it in France on the 29th of29 December 2010.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm_gen_cfilm=142320.html|title=Sound of Noise|language=French|work=[[AlloCiné]]|publisher=[[Tiger Management|Tiger Global]]|accessdateaccess-date=2010-12-22}}</ref>
==Reception==
===Critical response===
The film received a 91% rating on [[review aggregator]] website [[Rotten Tomatoes]], with an average rating of 7.1/10 based on 23 critics. The website's critical consensus reads, "''Sound of Noise'' is a raucous, irreverent comedy caper with good tunes and a romantic finish."<ref>{{Rotten Tomatoes}}</ref> On [[Metacritic]], the film has an average score of 72 out of 100, based on 9 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".<ref>{{Metacritic film}}</ref>
''[[indieWire]]'' named the film Bonnie and Clyde on Drums.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.indiewire.com/article/cannes_review_bonnie_and_clyde_on_drums_the_swedish_musical_comedy_sound_of/}}</ref>
Eric Kohn of ''[[IndieWire]]'' called ''Sound of Noise'' "[[Bonnie and Clyde (film)|''Bonnie and Clyde'']] on drums", writing, "Loaded with ingeniously devised beats, it hammers out a unique rhythm deserved of many repeat performances," and "directors Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjärne make the surrealist musical set pieces into the real stars". He also praised the film's "wildly original soundtrack".<ref>{{Cite web|last=Kohn|first=Eric|date=2010-05-20|title=CANNES REVIEW {{!}} Bonnie and Clyde on Drums: The Swedish Musical Comedy "Sound of Noise"|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2010/05/cannes-review-bonnie-and-clyde-on-drums-the-swedish-musical-comedy-sound-of-noise-55067/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-10-09|website=[[IndieWire]]|language=en}}</ref>
''[[The New York Times]]'' finished its article describing the film as a dry treat - a solid, self-aware cult pleasure.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/2012/03/09/movies/sound-of-noise-from-sweden.html/ }}</ref>
David DeWitt from ''[[The New York Times]]'' compared the film to the similarly percussive theatrical show [[Stomp (theatrical show)|Stomp]], and called it "a character study mixed with outlandish crime procedural. Everyone’s quite serious about the joke, without a moment of [[Adam Sandler]]-style “look at how cute we are” that would only dilute the film's appeal. ''Sound of Noise'' is a dry treat — a solid, self-aware cult pleasure".<ref>{{Cite news|last=DeWitt|first=David|date=2012-03-08|title=Anarchist Percussionists and a Belly as an Instrument|language=en-US|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/09/movies/sound-of-noise-from-sweden.html|access-date=2020-10-09|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
Alissa Simon in ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' called it a delightful comic cocktail of modern city symphony, police procedural and love story.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117942861?refcatid=31/ }}</ref>
In her review of the film, Alissa Simon from ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' called it "a delightful comic cocktail of modern city symphony, police procedural and love story ... With the most complex and wackily staged musical numbers since [[Marc Caro]] and [[Jean-Pierre Jeunet]]’s [[Delicatessen (1991 film)|''Delicatessen'']], the pic was far more demanding to make than it is to watch". She noted that "critical praise and savvy marketing could transform sure-fire fest crowd-pleaser into a niche arthouse success in most markets".<ref>{{Cite web|last=Simon|first=Alissa|date=2010-05-25|title=Sound of Noise|url=https://variety.com/2010/film/markets-festivals/sound-of-noise-1117942861/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-10-09|website=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|language=en}}</ref>
Peter Brunette of ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'' wrote that the basic premise of this delightful comedy from Sweden is one of the most imaginative you'll ever see. It's all based on music—raw, elemental and percussive—out of which genuine laughs are wrung from beginning to end.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/sound-noise-film-review-29654/ }}</ref>
Peter Brunette of ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'' called the basic premise of the film "one of the most imaginative you'll ever see. It's all based on music—raw, elemental and percussive—out of which genuine laughs are wrung from beginning to end." He noted the film's "understated but cute rom-com aspect", and described the sketches as "brilliantly conceptualized and faultlessly executed. The editing and sound mix are snappy, and delightful animations perk up the film visually. ''Sound of Noise'' may be small in scope, but, in terms of imagination, it's huge." He similarly commented that "the right niche distributor might coax some modest profits" from the film.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Brunette|first=Peter|date=14 October 2010|title=Sound of Noise -- Film Review|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/sound-noise-film-review-29654|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-10-09|website=[[Hollywood Reporter]]}}</ref>
===Accolades===
''Sound of Noise'' received the Young Critics Award and the Grand Rail d'Or at the [[International Critics' Week]].<ref name=sfiawards>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sfi.se/en-gb/Swedish-film-database/Item/?type=MOVIE&itemid=66620&iv=Awards|title=Sound of Noise (2010): Awards|work=[[Swedish Film Database]]|publisher=[[Swedish Film Institute]]|accessdate=2010-11-01}}</ref> As the festival run continued, it won the prize for Best Fantastic Film at [[Fantastic Fest]] in Austin.<ref name=sfiawardsIt /> Italso won the Free Spirit Award and the Audience Award at the 2010 [[Warsaw International Film Festival]].<ref name="sfiawards">{{Cite web|title=Sound of Noise (2010): Awards|url=http://www.sfi.se/en-gb/Swedish-film-database/Item/?type=MOVIE&itemid=66620&iv=Awards|access-date=2010-11-01|work=[[Swedish Film Database]]|publisher=[[Swedish Film Institute]]}}</ref> At the Molodist International Film Festival in KievKyiv, the film received both the award for Best Full-length Film and the Audience Prize.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Kozlov|first=Vladimir|date=2010-11-01|url=httphttps://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sergey-loznitsas-my-joy-awarded-34030|title=Sergey Loznitsa's 'My Joy' Awarded Grand Prix at the International Film Festival Molodist|work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|accessdateaccess-date=2010-11-01}}</ref> It won a Best Achievement [[Guldbagge Award]] for "a virtuous mergence of sound and music".<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Roger|first1=Susanna|last2=Zillén|first2=Fredrik|date=2011-01-24|title=Guldbagge för särskilda insatser|url=http://www.filmnyheterna.se/Nyheter/Guldbagge-for-sarskilda-insatser/|titleurl-status=Guldbagge för särskilda insatser|languagearchive-url=Swedish|archive-date=|access-date=2011-01-25|work=FilmnyheternaFilmnyHeterna|publisher=[[Swedish Film Institute]]|accessdatelanguage=2011-01-25sv|quote=För ett virtuost sammanfogande av ljud och musik i Sound of Noise.}}{{dead link|date=September 2023}}</ref>
==References==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb title|1278449}}
* {{Rotten Tomatoes|sound_of_noise}}
{{Warsaw Film Festival Audience Award}}
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