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Instead of seeing the clips of the movie we have instead voice-over descriptions of gloriously ridiculous scenes that any fan of the genre will immediately relate to. It's a Warholesque pop art intro with lots of black, lots of red and cool music. We never see the film in question but we are given a tantalising intro to it that certainly resembles movies from the time period. Little details are magnified and treated with visual flair such as the close-ups of the rotting vegetables discarded after being 'killed' for sound effects or the detailed scanning shots of the sound engineer's chronological notes. Director Peter Strickland maintains a stylish look and feel, combining sound and image in consistently interesting ways. A film set almost entirely within the confines of a sound studio needs something to ensure it's cinematic.
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Indeed, the excellent score from post-rock outfit Broadcast also has nods to Morricone as well as Bruno Nicolai, Goblin and others. There are haunting female wordless vocals that recall the work of the one and only Edda Dell'Orso who was the vocalist on countless Italian soundtracks from the time and almost something of a muse for the legendary Ennio Morricone. The music throughout the picture recalls the early 70's Italian prototype. So we have bizarre scenes where the sound engineer 'murders' various vegetables in order to get just the right noise. Italian genre pictures from the time were always shot soundless and then post-dubbed into a plethora of languages in order to maximise international sales so for this reason it's obvious that the sound recording part of the process was even more important in these films than normal.
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The film is set in a sound recording studio for movie audio effects and dubbing. Berberian Sound Studio is almost a deconstruction of the giallo. They are both highly original films in their own rights. They are films constructed from the motifs of the genre. However, neither Amer nor Berberian Sound Studio could exactly be called a giallo. Berberian Sound Studio does the same but with the addition of the film itself being set in Italy in the early 70's and, moreover, it is explicitly about the making of such films. Amer (2009) was a movie that adopted the former approach with many references to films from the time. It seems that any film nowadays that tries to capture the essence of these movies has to do it in a slightly post-modern or retro way rather than as a straight copy. These are the kinds of movies that belong to a specific era, indeed the décor, fashions and look of the women from early 70's Italy are significant factors in the pleasure of watching them. Their unique combination of salacious content with cinematic style, outstanding musical arrangements and Italian chic is truly a thing of wonder and a type of film-making we may never see again. The horror and giallo films produced in Italy in the 70's are possibly more respected now than at any time before.