O som ao redor 2012

A.O. Scott, New York Times: With his sound designer, Pablo Lamar, Mr. Mendonca has created the aural landscape of a horror movie. Read more

Scott Tobias, AV Club: Native Brazilians will no doubt pick up more allusions than outsiders, but Neighboring Sounds is a beautiful, scarily assured debut, a collection of small moments that add up to a pointillist wonder. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: 'Neighboring Sounds" unfolds like a casual nightmare in the light of day. Read more

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: A Brazilian drama with a powerful and enveloping sense of place ... Read more

Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: One of the strongest feature debuts of the last decade ... Read more

John Powers, NPR: Charged with an air of impending danger, the movie just keeps building. Read more

V.A. Musetto, New York Post: It interweaves the lives of a dozen or so characters, including servants and the security guards hired after a series of low-level crimes transpire in the neighborhood. Read more

Pablo Villaca, Chicago Sun-Times: "Neighboring Sounds" presents itself not only as a character study, but also as an authentic socio-economic class study. Read more

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Economically packed with social issues of wealth, property and class, and deft cinematic references, this is a movie built for the modern global high-rise condo market. Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Similar to the slow-creep style of Dogtooth director Giorgos Lanthimos, the narrative unfolds with escalating tension, the cause of which is heard and felt but not always seen. Read more

Tom Huddleston, Time Out: The film promises a little more than it delivers, and at over two hours there are moments where it drags. But as a statement of intent, 'Neighbouring Sounds' is incredibly bold. Read more

Keith Uhlich, Time Out: Filho's anxiety-inducing formal control is in full force throughout this multicharacter narrative, which interweaves nearly a dozen principals. Read more

Michelle Orange, Village Voice: Writer-director Kleber Mendonca Filho's arresting, energetically oblique debut. Read more