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Neighboring Sounds [Blu-ray]

Irma Brown (Actor), Sebastian Formiga (Actor), Kleber Mendonca Filho (Director) Rated:
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Format: Blu-ray
3.7 3.7 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
IMDb7.1/10.0
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Genre Drama
Format NTSC, Anamorphic, Widescreen, Surround Sound, Subtitled
Contributor Irandhir Santos, Kleber Mendonca Filho, Gustavo Jahn, Irma Brown, Sebastian Formiga, Maeve Jinkings
Language Portuguese
Runtime 2 hours and 11 minutes
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A palpable sense of unease hangs over a single city block in the coastal town of Recife, Brazil. Home to prosperous families and the servants who work for them, the area is ruled by an aging patriarch and his sons. When a private security firm is reluctantly brought in to protect the residents from a recent spate of petty crime, it unleashes the fears, anxieties and resentments of a divided society still haunted by it's troubled past. Kleber Mendonta Filho's Neighboring Sounds is a thrilling debut by a major new voice in world cinema.

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"This isn't merely the best new movie I've seen this year, it may well be the best Brazilian movie since the 1970s." --John Powers, Vogue

"A revelatory debut feature." --A.O. Scott, The New York Times

"A thoroughly modern, film-savvy opus steeped equally in dread and humor." --Dennis Lim, Artforum

"A revelatory debut feature." --A.O. Scott, The New York Times

"A thoroughly modern, film-savvy opus steeped equally in dread and humor." --Dennis Lim, Artforum

Product details

  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 0.01 ounces
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ 26515665
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Kleber Mendonca Filho
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ NTSC, Anamorphic, Widescreen, Surround Sound, Subtitled
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 2 hours and 11 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ May 14, 2013
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Irma Brown, Sebastian Formiga, Gustavo Jahn, Maeve Jinkings, Irandhir Santos
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Cinema Guild
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00BL7TPYI
  • Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.7 3.7 out of 5 stars 20 ratings

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  • Katherine Leach
    5.0 out of 5 stars 1/25/2020 Subtitles, NOW!
    Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2020
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    "Neighboring Sounds" is a remarkable film that I was looking forward to seeing again. FIX IT!
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  • Xander Delamore
    1.0 out of 5 stars Dreadfully boring.
    Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2018
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    Pointless and boring. In 2 hrs 11 mins essentially nothing happens. Long sequences of people walking, smoking, eating, staring. Someone paid to have this bomb hyped up. Waste of time and money. Here I was thinking this was going to rival Cidade de Deus.
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  • UrungaJeff
    2.0 out of 5 stars Killed by Hype!
    Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2013
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    This is just a simple nothing-extraordinary movie in which not a lot happened. I kept waiting for the point where the story switched on, but it just didn't happen. Still trying to work out why it was billed as the best Brazilian movie in 30 years. Maybe we'll just have to wait another 30 years for something to happen!
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  • Johnny Ace
    5.0 out of 5 stars Beguiling, gentle drama that packs a quiet punch
    Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2016
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    Beautifully made and beguilingly loosely structured set of stories that represent a tremendous prelude to the more tautly constructed "Aquarius". Video-transfer is pleasing.
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  • Boo
    5.0 out of 5 stars Subtle but compelling.
    Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2016
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    Nice quiet film, with much to say about class structure in Brazil.
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  • M.Merkersen
    4.0 out of 5 stars Insite into a foreign landscape
    Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2014
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    This film made me aware I know very little about life in Brazil. I had to read about the movie in other sources before I began to appreciate the the story.

    The Amazon description omitted that the Bluray has features that the DVD does not. I purchased the DVD thinking it had the 3 extra short films were included. Only one was.
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  • William M.
    1.0 out of 5 stars I watched this a few years ago. It had subtitles then. Now they are missing.
    Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2020
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    Subtitles have been removed for whatever reason.
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  • Stephen C. Rife
    5.0 out of 5 stars Neighbors Nonetheless
    Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2013
    Set in a middle class high-rise in the Brazilian city of Recife, this extraordinary debut feature by former film critic Kleber Mendonça Filho is a voyeuristic tour-de-force; rich in humor, domestic life, class and character drama, private and public pleasure, ambiguity (though the narrative is significantly less ambiguous than many claim), and a unique, driving undercurrent of anxiety. The connection between this Polanski-esque dread and the favendas (plantations) and engenhos (sugar mills) of Brazil's past is established in a black and white montage that opens the film, accompanied by a heart-like, low register beat that continues throughout, pressing against the high-rise's mundane action, tenuous security, and bourgeois delights. The percussive, spare scoring (provided by DJ Dolores, following Filho's request for something "more than noise but less than music" ) punctuates and anticipates several extremely effective smash-cuts, and generates an uneasy yet engaging atmosphere, culminating in a child's nightmare that is among the best dream sequences I've seen, ranking with the rape/rescue dream in The Bitter Tea of General Yen (d. Frank Capra, 1933), Dr. Borg's nightmare of an empty street in Wild Strawberries (d. Ingmar Bergman, 1957), and Rosemary's dream eliding the memory of a nun with sounds of her neighbor through her bedroom's thin wall in Rosemary's Baby (d. Roman Polanski, 1968). The finale is duly satisfying as its Marxist dimension, though never didactic, has been in evidence for nearly two hours without taking so direct and horrific a form. Wherever the viewer falls in their sympathies/identifications, the groundwork - what might be considered visual evidence if not argument - has been laid for the scene in question, and it carries a delicious combination of surprise and inevitability.
    Owing largely to the use of off-screen, predominantly ambient sound - as well as deep focus compositions that often favor negative space - there is an uncommon sense of air, tropical heat, the open street/intersection, and nearby rooms and interior space. The sound design is densely, expertly layered and occasionally surreal, suggesting unseen neighbor and invader, desires unspoken and unknown. Benefiting from a gestation of nearly two decades, `Sounds combines elements from various shorter pieces Filho completed in the interim between 1994 (when he wrote the screenplay) and the film's release early last year. His choice to shoot in widescreen, Super 35 `Scope appears itself to be an act of defiance, for a film that might just as easily have been shot on high-definition video, providing a pictorial consonance with the spirit/presence of surveillance video in the urban setting, and lower dynamic range with darker - though not deeper - blacks. However, it should be noted the choice to shoot in video (with the possible exception of Arriflex's recent Alexa line of cameras) would have been less effective than film, and perhaps disingenuous, as Filho laments the death of the public cinema in one brief scene (apparently his favorite ) that is all the more piquant for its lightness. On a weekend break from the city, the scion of the high rise's paterfamilias cavorts through the overgrown ruins of a cinema with his girlfriend, mimicking gunplay in some genre staple as an extra-diegetic film score plays in the background, the roofless lobby and auditorium, weathered screen, decorative elements, and façade exposed and decaying like a carcass in broad daylight. The scene is one of a handful that break from the urban street and high-rise environment pitting upper and lower classes in literal opposition to one another.

    The blu-ray version and a superior sound system are strongly recommended.
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