Voice from the Stone

Name: Voice from the Stone
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Released: April 28, 2017
Duration: 94 min
Rating: 42

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Momentum Pictures | Release Date: April 28, 2017 | R

Summary: Set in 1950s Tuscany, Voice from the Stone is the haunting and suspenseful story of Verena (Emilia Clarke), a solemn nurse drawn to aid a young boy who has fallen silent since the sudden passing of his mother.

Director: Eric D. Howell

Genre(s): Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Rating: R

Runtime: 94 min

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Soren Andersen

Apr 27, 2017

With her wonderfully expressive face, Clarke carries the picture, navigating her character’s gradual transformation with grace and conviction. Read full review

Michael O'Sullivan

Apr 27, 2017

The film looks handsome and expensive, building up a nice head of suspense before sputtering to a less than wholly satisfying conclusion. Read full review

Rex Reed

Apr 28, 2017

The best thing here is the muted cinematography, which caresses the wet leaves and cloudy purple Tuscan skies like an old Italian master oil painting that comes to life. In the desultory Voice From the Stone, it’s the only thing that does. Read full review

April Wolfe

Apr 26, 2017

As evocative as the production design and cinematography are, multiple cheesy scenes with one-dimensional characters undermine Howell’s efforts to spook, let alone redefine a genre. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Susan Wloszczyna

Apr 28, 2017

For far too long, nothing especially creepy or unsettling happens on screen. Read full review

Sheri Linden

Apr 27, 2017

Howell’s inept pileup of would-be signifiers — a misty quarry, a family crypt, a philosophical beekeeper — gives way to frisson-free horror and unconvincing romance. Read full review

Derek Smith

Apr 23, 2017

In none of its manifestations is grief as tidy and meticulously arranged as in Eric D. Howell's film. Read full review

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Iamsteve001

Aug 1, 2017

Excellent film. If you like so called "Post Horror" movies this is for you. Emilia Clarke is stunning and her performance is riveting: in a film, probably her best so far. As far as the rest of the cast: Marton Csokas is really great here. There is some nudity but we are used to it withExcellent film. If you like so called "Post Horror" movies this is for you. Emilia Clarke is stunning and her performance is riveting: in a film, probably her best so far. As far as the rest of the cast: Marton Csokas is really great here. There is some nudity but we are used to it with Daenerys in GOT. I loved this movie.… Expand

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LeZee

Sep 7, 2017

The transformation!!!

It is a little confusing. I don't think everybody who saw it understood at the first attempt. Otherwise, it would have not received such a low rating. The film failed to give the explanations in an understandable way. Only if you are good enough to figure it outThe transformation!!!

It is a little confusing. I don't think everybody who saw it understood at the first attempt. Otherwise, it would have not received such a low rating. The film failed to give the explanations in an understandable way. Only if you are good enough to figure it out everything by yourself like by observing the characteristic behaviours, dialogues and scenes that including illusion/dreams, then it can be considered a good one. So, comparing to the book it was based on, I don't know if the book complicates its readers the same way.

In the opening, a mother breathes her last before taking an oath from his not to speak a word till she returns. Very unusual scene, because she died by the side of her son and nobody else present, like her husband. Then a new nurse arrives to take care of him. She was confident that she can make him talk again, but later she begins to know more about the place and the people. Unexplainable things happen. Well, the film says it all, but it's hard for us to get the details. Following, a twist comes, then everything back to normal, like nothing ever happened.

All the actors were okay. I particularly watched it for Emilia Clarke. I loved the location, the atmosphere. Not a typical seaside sunny Italian place, but shot at the misty medieval house. In the beginning I thought it was like another version of 'Miracle Worker'. In the midway, I thought of 'Hidden Face'. None were right. But I only got it when I googled about it after the watch and realised there was no dream sequences at all, especially coming to the climax part. All are real, and which is a twist.

Maybe it need to be watched twice, particularly after googling about what part you did not get. So it was like 'Skeleton Key' meets 'Safe Haven'. I don't want to say anything further to spoil your watch if you're yet to see it. Just watch it and make your own opinion whether you liked it or not, but try to understand it first what happens at the end. Now I've changed my rating slightly, yet the film was so old fashioned. If it had came a couple of decades ago, would have considered a best one. There are people who love such film, even today, like maybe the old guys. So it is for the selected people.

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bellj

May 2, 2019

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Emilia is beautiful in this classic role set in ~1950's Italy. And the music, the ambiance of the castle, the red ivy, the fog, etc. all combine with the ever-present art and sculptures on the estate grounds to create a neo-Roman "Wuthering Heights" backdrop to tell an epic story. Unfortunately, the beautiful but puzzling story unfolding suddenly jumps ahead disjointedly (as so many do in this genre), not linking the first 2/3rds of the film with the latter 1/3. It may be the author's/screenwriter's intent to create a web of confusion for the audience about what is real and what is not, and whose spirit inhabits the main character's "being" in the end. But it takes that leap too quickly to allow the audience to come along with the storyteller and the characters themselves. Obviously, it would be harder to film Emilia's character playing the piano masterfully at the end, but it should have at least been tried, even if it was just a shot of a stand-in's hands playing the classical piece you hear. Instead, you're left wondering whether she actually is playing the piano via the spirit of the dead wife, or is she actually just hallucinating that she can play the piano and thinks she IS a reincarnation of the dead wife. Again, maybe such confusion is the exact effect that they wanted to have on the viewer, but the herky-jerky sudden change in pacing without any further telling of the story (so beautifully done up to that point), made the beauty and atmosphere in this film suddenly take a nosedive during the finale, into the realm of "How did we get HERE?" Nevertheless, Emilia Clarke is still beautiful in this role, even if you're not always sure what's going on with her character and the story.… Expand

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