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Don’t let the title fool you: “The History of Sound” is an awfully muted affair. Muted in color, performance, tenor and tone, Olivier Hermanus’ doleful ethnomusicologist romance premiered in Cannes to a commensurately muffled response.
Paul Mescal and Josh O'Connor build a budding wartime romance in the 2025 Cannes Film Festival premiere "The History of Sound." What you won't see onscreen are either a tale directly about queer repression circa World War I or any explicit sex scenes,