Paul Mescal and Josh O'Connor play early 20th century music students in filmmaker Oliver Hermanus' poignant queer love story. In the film "The History Of Sound," two young men search for authentic ...

Chris Cooper, Oliver Hermanus, and Ben Shattuck sit down with Newsweek to discuss the story behind The History of Sound, starring Paul Mescal and Josh O'Connor.

It’s the kind of movie that might just have you reaching for tissues to blot a tear — or five. The World War I-era historical drama crosses ocean and sea, going from rural Kentucky to collegiate ...

"There was a moment when I realized that I had probably never been as happy as I was when collecting songs..." Mubi has revealed the first official trailer for a heartrending, romantic film titled The ...

Thu, September 11, 2025 at 6:26 PM UTC The grandiose, sweeping emotional gestures toward repression and latent desire out of something like “Brokeback Mountain” are nowhere here, Hermanus instead ...

When music students Lionel Worthing (Paul Mescal) and David White (Josh O'Connor) first meet in a Boston bar in 1917, ...

The History of Sound casts an enchanting spell in its languid story of a love that dare not speak its name between Lionel and David, two scholars who meet at the New England Conservatory of Music in ...

When director Oliver Hermanus’s queer drama, “The History of Sound,” played Cannes earlier this year, so many reviews compared it to “Brokeback Mountain” that the film’s star, Paul Mescal, complained ...

Josh O'Connor and Paul Mescal play secret lovers in director Oliver Hermanus' WWI-era romance, one that never sharpens into the vivid sense of heartbreak you're hoping for.

Vulnerable, poetic and sonically heart-wrenching, two musicians’ bittersweet folktale doubles as an homage to music itself.