The Sound and the Fury

Name: The Sound and the Fury
Genre: Drama
Released: October 23, 2015
Duration: 101 min
Rating: 38

2015

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New Films International | Release Date: October 23, 2015 | Not Rated

Summary: The Sound and The Fury captures the lives and passions of the Compsons, a once proud Southern family caught in a tragic spiral of loss and misfortune. Based on the novel by Nobel Prize winner author William Faulkner and considered among the 20th century's greatest works, The Sound and The Fury encapsulates the universal theme of the deathThe Sound and The Fury captures the lives and passions of the Compsons, a once proud Southern family caught in a tragic spiral of loss and misfortune. Based on the novel by Nobel Prize winner author William Faulkner and considered among the 20th century's greatest works, The Sound and The Fury encapsulates the universal theme of the death of honor, social injustice and forbidden love. [New Films International]… Expand

Director: James Franco

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 101 min

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Boyd van Hoeij

Oct 22, 2015

There’s certainly an overall sense of a formerly rich family’s fortunes dwindling, both economically and emotionally, but the three sections don’t add up to something more than the sum of their parts. Read full review

The Playlist Jessica Kiang

Oct 22, 2015

If ‘Dying’‘s main issue was a surfeit of ideas, ’Sound’ feels like it suffers from a paucity. Read full review

Andrew Barker

Oct 22, 2015

The Sound and the Fury is certainly a folly, failing to capture the weird, entrancing, often maddening ambiance of the great writer’s elliptical masterpiece, and its surfeit of half-baked film-student flourishes and needless cameos occasionally give it an amateur-hour feel. Read full review

The Guardian Paul MacInnes

Oct 22, 2015

So bogged down by form, Franco fails to get his head up enough to think about content. Read full review

The Telegraph Robbie Collin

Oct 22, 2015

Faulkner’s book, an oblique and complex tale of the American South’s festering decline, hasn’t so much been reworked for cinema as simply dumped on the screen in handfuls, and the result is a swirling mess. Read full review

Matt Hoffman

Aug 7, 2019

One can say that Faulkner is unfilmable, but any work will be unfilmable when it is being adapted by a talentless director. In this case, the fault of the film’s issues stem completely from Franco and not at all with the difficulty in Faulkner’s writing. Hopefully, after two failed outings, the actor will learn to leave Faulkner’s masterful work alone. Although knowing him, I wouldn’t be surprised to see him try his hand at adapting one of the author’s works again. Read full review

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DrBlahBlah

Jun 28, 2020

Dear Franco, please stop ruining the classics. Faulkner and McCarthy deserve better. Thank you.

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