Sound of Silence

Nominee
Grand Jury Prize ~ Dramatic
Sundance Film Festival
Deftly balances the cerebral with the soulful in a story of transfixing originality.
-- David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter

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The Sound of Silence

There are a symphony of almost undetectable sounds that make up a moment of silence, and Peter Lucian (Peter Sarsgaard) is determined to catalogue them all. Through his job as a New York City “house tuner,” the hyper-methodical Peter works meticulously to diagnose the discordant ambient noises—produced by everything from wind patterns to humming electrical appliances—adversely affecting his clients’ moods. When he takes on the particularly difficult case of Ellen (Rashida Jones), a lonely woman plagued by chronic exhaustion, Peter finds that the mysteries of the soul may be even greater than the mysteries of sound. A quietly moving portrait of a harmony-obsessed man learning to embrace the dissonance of human emotion, The Sound of Silence invites viewers to hear the world with fresh ears.
Not Rated
Genre
Drama
Runtime
87
Language
English
Director
Michael Tyburski
Writer(s)
Ben Nabors, Michael Tyburski
Cast
Peter Sarsgaard, Rashida Jones, Tony Revolori, Austin Pendleton, Bruce Altman
Awards:
Nominee, Grand Jury Prize ~ Dramatic, Sundance Film Festival
FEATURED REVIEW
Michael Nordine, Indiewire

If you listen closely enough, even silence sounds like *something.* Most of us can’t hear it, but most of us aren’t house tuners. Peter Lucian (Peter Sarsgaard) is, though, and he uses his particular set of skills to rid people of their ailments — depression, fatigue, what have you — by mapping out ...

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