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The History of Sound
In 1917, two young music students attending the Boston Conservatory bond over a mutual love of folk music. They reconnect a few years later, embarking on a song-collecting trip in the backwaters of Maine.
2025 · Directed by Oliver Hermanus · 128 min · Drama · Romance · Music · 10 frames
Crew
- Screenplay: Ben Shattuck
- Cinematography: Alexander Dynan
- Edited by: Chris Wyatt
- Music: Oliver Coates
- Production design: Deborah Jensen
- Produced by: Lisa Ciuffetti, Andrew Kortschak, Andrea Roa, Sara Murphy
Cast
- Paul Mescal as Lionel Worthing
- Josh O'Connor as David White
- Chris Cooper as Older Lionel
- Molly Price as Lionel's Mother
- Raphael Sbarge as Lionel's Father
- Hadley Robinson as Belle Sinclair
- Michael Schantz as Bob Sinclair
- Peter Mark Kendall as Nathan McCloud
- Emma Canning as Clarissa Roux
- Alison Bartlett as Samantha
Production
- Country: United Kingdom, United States of America, Sweden
- Language: English, Italian
- Studios: End Cue, Film4 Productions, Tango Entertainment, Fat City
- Budget: $2,500,000
- Box office: $3,220,241
- Themes: world war i, boston, massachusetts, conservatory, folk music, road trip, maine, male homosexuality, period drama, new england, based on short story
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