Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor’s tale of gay love and folk music set in early 20th-century America is handsomely made but lacks emotional intensity.

Director Oliver Hermanus lauded Mescal's performance. The film, set in 1919, follows two men recording folk music in rural New England. Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor received a lot of praise and ...

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Oliver Hermanus' The History Of Sound is both musically inert and narratively repetitive, turning its queer romance into a ...

The Oscar nominee shares the screen with Josh O'Connor in The History Of Sound, which premiered in Cannes on Wednesday night.

With a screenplay by Ben Shattuck adapting his own short story, director Oliver Hermanus takes a small, poignant idea and warps it into a two-hour film. It is 1917 when Kentucky farm boy Lionel ...

In Oliver Hermanus' drama, two music students form a profound attachment in early 20th century New England, reuniting years later to travel the Maine backwoods collecting traditional folk songs.

In Oliver Hermanus’s Cannes Competition film The History of Sound, Paul Mescal stars as Lionel, a Kentucky-born singer who connects with composition student David (Josh O’Connor) and forms a ...

There should be more films about the nuances of queer relationships,' said director Oliver Hermanus (right) Mescal said comparing 'The History of Sound' to 'Brokeback Mountain' was lazy Irish ...

A good match might be the earthy tones of the wood-panelled bars, heavy woollen suits and New England forests that populate Oliver Hermanus’s gracefully minor-key The History of Sound.

In this period drama, premiering at Cannes, two of Hollywood's buzziest male actors play lovers making music together – but ...