Berberian Sound Studio

"A delicately detailed immersion into the world of Z-grade Italian horror cinema that ultimately may or may not be a horror film itself ... a tense, teasing triumph."

"Crammed with detailed craft, its appeal is further widened by dealing in universal fears: homesickness, identity, mental health."

"In this era of cookie-cutter cinema, Strickland's deeply personal moral and stylistic vision deserves the highest praise."

"Utterly distinctive and all but unclassifiable, a musique concrète nightmare, a psycho-metaphysical implosion of anxiety, with strange-tasting traces of black comedy and movie-buff riffs. It is seriously weird and seriously good"

"A love letter to the weird territories of foley and film sound and also to giallo, the grand-guignol horror genre carved into the flesh of Italian cinema by Argento, Fulci, Crispino, Avati et al in the 1970s."

"Psychedelic aesthetics, psychogenic fugues - it is the disorientating giallo Lynch might have made."

"Anchored by a typically flawless performance by Jones, Strickland's second film begins as an audio geek's dream, before spiralling inexorably into the stuff of David Lynch's nightmares."

"With each cut and splice, <b>Berberian Sound Studio</b> becomes quietly insinuating and unsettling: as with <b>The Artist</b>, as with all artists, its worst fears lie in screaming and not being heard."