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Neighbouring Sounds
O som ao redor

Kleber Mendonça Filho  •  Brazil  • ​ 2012 
124 mins  •  HD  •   M sex scenes, offensive language & drug use
In Portuguese with English subtitles


This drama set on a prosperous street near a poor neighbourhood in coastal Brazil makes for compulsive viewing. 
​From the director of Aquarius and Bacurau.

“The mastery of pacing, theme and stylistic eccentricity throughout… is so assured as to be breathtaking.”
– Film Comment
DIRECTOR/SCREENPLAY: Kleber Mendonça Filho
PRODUCER: Emilie Lesclaux
PHOTOGRAPHY: Pedro Sotero, Fabricio Tadeu
EDITORS: Kleber Mendonça Filho, João Maria
PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Juliano Dornelles
COSTUME DESIGNER: Ingrid Mata
MUSIC: DJ Dolores
WITH: Irandhir Santos (Clodoaldo), Gustavo Jahn (João), Maeve Jinkings (Bia), W.J. Solha (Francisco), Irma Brown (Sofia), Lula Terra (Anco), Yuri Holanda (Dinho), Clébia Souza (Luciene), Albert Tenório (Ronaldo), Nivaldo Nascimento (Fernando)

FESTIVALS: Rotterdam, New Directors/New Films, San Francisco 2012
AWARDS: Critics’ Prize, International Film Festival Rotterdam 2012

REVIEWS

“Set in a well-to-do apartment complex that’s like a small town to itself, the film vigorously explores the relationships between over a dozen inhabitants, from the building’s aging owner calling the shots from his penthouse, to the comfortable middle class residents lounging in their apartments, to the security guards patrolling the streets.

The characters intermingle in any number of impeccably crafted scenes; issues of class, race and power bubble beneath their interactions, revealing societal holes in Brazil’s current economic boom. With over a dozen featured characters, the outstanding ensemble deserves comparison with the best of Altman, and is topped only by Filho’s tremendous precision with camerawork and dialogue.”

— Kevin Lee, RogerEbert.com


“This is the kind of thrilling discovery that makes festival-going worthwhile… Filho, shooting in ’scope, makes unexpected and inventive use of space, and his cuts often shift the action in arresting ways, but he handles his meticulously constructed film with great ease. Neighbouring Sounds is the work of someone with an acute eye and ear for the push and pull of modern life, and it makes for genuinely compulsive viewing. Even though you may not be quite sure where things are heading during the circuitous build toward its stunning payoff, you know something’s going to happen.”

— Gavin Smith, Film Comment


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