Day 84/88 - Sound of Noise (2010)

For  who only think of Swedish films in the somber tones of such films such as Ingmar Bergman’s The Virgin Spring or Niels Arden Oplev’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series, it’s fun to come across a funny and wacky “absurdist comedy” where you can laugh out loud.

In Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjarne Nilsson’s Sound of Noise, six percussionists create a symphony of sound as artistic terrorism. They’re not out to kill anybody; just to create music like no one ever has.

Amadeus Warnebring (Bengt Nilsson) is the tone-deaf brother of a famous conductor and a well-respected police officer. Hating music as he does, he is the first person to realize that the terrorists who leave a ticking metronome in a van instead of a bomb and then later torture a patient in an operating room of a hospital are actually musicians performing. The four percussionist movements—in a hospital operating room, at a bank, in front of a symphony hall during a musical performance, and on the electrical wires of the city—as beautifully staged and very funny.

Amadeus is able to solve the case, win a kiss from the girl, and come to terms with his hatred of music.

It’s a fun movie.

Sound of Noise (2010) ****