The Sound of Silence
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Synopsis
There are a symphony of almost undetectable sounds that make up a moment of silence, and Peter Lucian (Peter Sarsgaard) is determined to catalogue them all. Through his job as a New York City house tuner, the hyper-methodical Peter works meticulously to diagnose the discordant ambient noises produced by everything from wind patterns to humming electrical appliances adversely affecting his clients' moods. When he takes on the particularly difficult case of Ellen (Rashida Jones), a lonely woman plagued by chronic exhaustion, Peter finds that the mysteries of the soul may be even greater than the mysteries of sound. A quietly moving portrait of a harmony-obsessed man learning to embrace the dissonances of human emotion, The Sound of Silence invites viewers to hear the world with fresh ears.
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- Peter Sarsgaard
- Rashida Jones
- Tony Revolori
- Austin Pendleton
- Bruce Altman
- Tina Benko
- Theodore Bouloukos
- Adit Dileep
- Perrin Drumm
- Alison Fraser
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Metacritic
Sep 25, 2019
Sarsgaard and Jones are good actors, and both are fine. The real star, though, is sound designer Ian Gaffney-Rosenfeld and his team, who bring a depth and dimension to the story that sorely needs it.
G. Allen Johnson
San Francisco Chronicle
Sep 13, 2019
If you’re a maven or even vaguely curious there’s a lot of production value to be derived here. The human story that the filmmakers want to drape over their atmosphere, though, never quite connects.
Glenn Kenny
RogerEbert.com
Sep 12, 2019
The Sound of Silence, anchored by a superbly modulated performance by the always intriguing Peter Sarsgaard, is fascinating, original and, yes, deeply resonant.
Gary Goldstein
Los Angeles Times
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