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Berberian sound studio torrent3/6/2023 ![]() ![]() The Welsh-born filmmaker who herself comes from an artistic family well and truly earned her stripes on the international festival circuit with her award-winning 2015 short Nasty. That this is her feature debut risks overlooking just how hard she has worked to get to the point where Censor is today, having made its world premiere at Sundance earlier this year and now playing in the Panorama section of the Berlinale. To be clear, this is not to reductively frame Bailey-Bond’s achievements merely in terms of how they compare to those of male filmmakers. Rather, Bailey-Bond’s film reaches that perfect crescendo where tone, theme and form collide with spectacular results, a quality Strickland himself has mastered as one of the great cinematic stylists and genre experimenters working today. With this film, Prano Bailey-Bond has made a film that while far from derivative offers the perfect bookend to a dream double bill with Peter Strickland’s Berberian Sound Studio, not only because both are cerebral horror movies set in specific historical moments of the genres history (70s Italian horror in Strickland’s case the 80s video nasties moral panic in the case of Censor). That Censor is a debut feature makes it all the more extraordinary. ![]() In and of itself, Censor is a brilliant, original and head-in-the-door-slammingly creepy horror film.
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