The second Paul Mescal in seven days sees him team up with Josh O’Connor who play Lionel and David who meet in a bar over a love of music and become romantically involved and when they go their separate ways the film focuses on Mescal’s Lionel as he tries to find out what has happened to David.
I am going to be honest and say that I thought the film was ok. The chemistry/dynamic or whatever you want to call it between O’Connor and Mescal was definitely the highlight of the movie and worth seeing for them. I don't think that Mescal’s performance was as good as it was in Hamnet but it was still enjoyable enough. I thought that Josh O’Connor performance was the stronger of the two and I thought his character was the more interesting of the two.
There are some positives apart from the two leading roles and the main one is that it is a beautiful looking film. The film takes place over a few decades and the film does a good job of making the time that has passed feel like it is passing instead of just feeling like it takes place over a few years.
The History of Sound is a perfectly decent film but I do think that it will be forgotten about and probably stumbled across by someone when it goes on streaming in about three weeks. I only discovered afterwards that the film was directed by Oliver Hermanus and a previous effort of his was Living which was the English language modern day remake of Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru. I think if I had to choose then I would say that Living is the better film but this film is definitely worth your time. It just might be slow for some people.
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