“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 set in the early 20th century, and its two lead characters start off ...

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 ...

Paul Mescal in "The History of Sound" (Cannes Film Festival) Don’t let the title fool you: “The History of Sound” is an awfully muted affair. Muted in color, performance, tenor and tone, Olivier ...

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 ...

At the heart of History of Sound is a wonderful gay romance between two men during the early 1900s. But don’t make any comparisons to Brokeback Mountain, please, per the movie’s star Paul Mescal and ...

A new teaser into The History of Sound starring Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor has been released following the official trailer release last month (24 July). The film, adapted from Ben Shattuck’s short ...

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 ...