Euphonia (2013)
Euphonia (2013)
WEBRip 720p | MKV | 1280 x 720 | x264 @ 2136 Kbps | English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | 53 min | 940 Mb
Genre: Drama, Thriller
WEBRip 720p | MKV | 1280 x 720 | x264 @ 2136 Kbps | English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | 53 min | 940 Mb
Genre: Drama, Thriller
The film follows the story of a high schooler, played by Madden’s younger brother Will, who purchases a sound recording device in search of better sounds in his life, and slowly becomes obsessed with it. He roams his small town and nearby Atlanta, capturing audio, and starts to experience the world through those sound bites.
The simple premise, originally intended for a short, unfolds beautifully and convincingly over the 55-minute runtime. Madden wrote, directed, edited, and did sound design for the film. Much of the film’s audio was captured while filming, by the sound recorder at the center of the story itself. “Here’s a kid going around with a sound recorder,” explains Madden. “We should feel like a kid going around with a camera and capturing it.”
The naturalistic style of the film was a departure for Madden — he usually plans and storyboards his films meticulously, and is best acquainted with animation. His last film, the action-packed animated short Notes on Biology, won a Jury Award for best animated short at SXSW in 2012. The ultimate effect he achieves in Euphonia is a hybrid of his sensibilities, somewhere between a gentle Terrence Malick meditation, and a jarring David Lynch deconstruction.
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Euphonia (2013)
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