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Oliver Hermanus' The History Of Sound is both musically inert and narratively repetitive, turning its queer romance into a ...
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 ...
Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor in 2020 were totally different propositions to the market than they are now,” says Oliver Hermanus, who directs the duo in his gay period drama The History Of ...
Stars turned out in full force to support South African filmmaker Oliver Hermanus’ latest movie, “The History of Sound”. Everyone from model Naomi Campbell and actor Aishwarya Rai Bachchan – to ...
Acclaimed director Oliver Hermanus (“Beauty,” “Living”) is back at the Cannes Film Festival after almost two decades, ready to bring some movie star heat and stir emotions with a lush ...
Paul Mescal and director Oliver Hermanus walked the Cannes red carpet for the premiere of The History of Sound, joined by Ben Shattuck, Raphael Sbarge, and Emma Canning. Though Josh O’Connor was ...
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 ...
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 ...
How much stifled yearning can one gay period drama take? That’s a question confronted by Oliver Hermanus’s new film The History of Sound, which premiered here in Cannes on May 21. The film ...