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  • 2012
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  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 42 m
  • 2012
  • R
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 42 m
Sound of Noise

Summary Police officer Amadeus Warnebring was born into a musical family with a long history of famous musicians. Ironically, he hates music. His life is thrown into chaos when a band of crazy musicians decides to perform a musical apocalypse using the city as their orchestra... Reluctantly, Warnebring embarks on his first musical investigation....

Directed By: Ola Simonsson, Johannes Stjärne Nilsson

Written By: Jim Birmant, Johannes Stjärne Nilsson, Ola Simonsson

  • 2012
  • R
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 42 m
  • 2012
  • R
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 42 m

Sound of Noise

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
72
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 12 User Ratings
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Summary Police officer Amadeus Warnebring was born into a musical family with a long history of famous musicians. Ironically, he hates music. His life is thrown into chaos when a band of crazy musicians decides to perform a musical apocalypse using the city as their orchestra... Reluctantly, Warnebring embarks on his first musical investigation....

Directed By: Ola Simonsson, Johannes Stjärne Nilsson

Written By: Jim Birmant, Johannes Stjärne Nilsson, Ola Simonsson

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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78% Positive
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22% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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22% Mixed
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91
Mar 7, 2012
What binds the entertaining crime movie to its YouTube-ready musical interludes is the unspoken yearning of its two leads: he for the world of silence in which he'd rather live, and she for all the sounds that slip by every second, uncontrolled and unappreciated.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
80
Mar 8, 2012
What follows is a character study mixed with outlandish crime procedural. Everyone's quite serious about the joke, without a moment of Adam Sandler-style "look at how cute we are" that would only dilute the film's appeal. Sound of Noise is a dry treat - a solid, self-aware cult pleasure.
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75
Mar 5, 2012
The film is ultimately winning because of its devilish anarchic streak, aiming its arrows at the stuffiness of the traditional musical establishment.
By Jesse Cataldo FULL REVIEW
70
Mar 4, 2012
A delightful comic cocktail of modern city symphony, police procedural and love story.
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70
Mar 4, 2012
The basic premise of this delightful comedy from Sweden is one of the most imaginative you'll ever see. It's all based on music -- raw, elemental and percussive -- out of which genuine laughs are wrung from beginning to end.
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60
Mar 6, 2012
The backbeat anarchy is fun while it lasts, but without a persuasive purpose, it's all just noise in the end.
By Eric Hynes FULL REVIEW
50
Mar 6, 2012
More an intriguing premise than a successful film, the Malmö-set Sound of Noise, about a group of "musical terrorists," quickly loses its novelty and becomes about as bold as a Swedish production of "Stomp."
By Melissa Anderson FULL REVIEW

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6.3
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17% Negative
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Production Company Bliss, dfm Fiktion, Nordisk Film, Film i Skåne, Wild Bunch, Canal+, Cinémage 3, DFM, Det Danske Filminstitut, Film i Väst, Konstnärsnämnden, Kostr-Film, MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Nordisk Film & TV-Fond, Svenska Filminstitutet (SFI), Sveriges Television (SVT), Touscoprod
Release Date Mar 9, 2012
Duration 1 h 42 m
Rating R
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Tagline The first musical cop movie
Website http://www.facebook.com/soundofnoise?ref=ts
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Awards

Cannes Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 4 Nominations
Warsaw International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Palm Springs International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

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