Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “The History of Sound” is a gay love story in which no one ever comes out and says what’s on their minds. We get why. The film is ...

Thu, September 11, 2025 at 6:26 PM UTC The grandiose, sweeping emotional gestures toward repression and latent desire out of something like “Brokeback Mountain” are nowhere here, Hermanus instead ...

Oliver Hermanus takes two of the most romantic leading men in modern cinema and directs them in the most sexless and unsentimental way possible. A film has so much potential, but only shallowly ...

Oliver Hermanus' wartime romance, which premiered at Cannes, arrives in theaters this September. Two of the indie film world’s favorite young actors will share the screen this fall in what many are ...

In the film "The History Of Sound," two young men search for authentic folk tunes as they hike through the backwoods of Maine. Critic Bob Mondello says the World War I era romance is a story of music ...

There are a lot of movies about the transformative power of music. There are few that take it to such literal and metaphysical heights as The History of Sound. A triumph of metaphor and screen ...

What if your greatest love was your first one and any chance of happiness disappeared when it ended? That’s the haunting idea behind the new gay film romance, “The History of Sound.” Seemingly a love ...

A stately but often listless period love story, "The History of Sound" is full of romantic longing but lacks a central spark. It is refined and elegant but comes off as a tepid slog. Paul Mescal is ...

Official image from ‘The History of Sound’ courtesy of Universal Pictures. As the lights turned back on in the theater after Oliver Hermanus’ (“Living”) World War I romance “The History of Sound,” the ...