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A tone-deaf cop works to track down a group of guerilla percussionists whose anarchic public performances are terrorizing the city.A tone-deaf cop works to track down a group of guerilla percussionists whose anarchic public performances are terrorizing the city.A tone-deaf cop works to track down a group of guerilla percussionists whose anarchic public performances are terrorizing the city.
- Awards
- 8 wins & 5 nominations
Bengt Braskered
- Amadeus Warnebring
- (as Bengt Nilsson)
Sanna Persson
- Sanna
- (as Sanna Persson Halapi)
Marcus Boij
- Marcus
- (as Marcus Haraldson Boij)
Nina Brundahl Warnolf
- Mother as Young
- (as Nina Brunndahl Warnolf)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaAt the concert the main character's brother is conducting the 2nd movement Haydn's Symphony No 94, the Surprise. It features one loud note - a wake up note - to rouse the possibily sleeping audience, but also as a way of poking fun at the overly pretentious listeners. This fits exactly with one theme of this movie where they are poking fun at the pretentious nature of modern artists who believe everything they make is significant.
- Crazy creditsThis is a work of fiction. Don't try this at home - electricity kills!
- ConnectionsReferences Music for One Apartment and Six Drummers (2001)
Featured review
Inventive, intense, funny, zany, and oddly warm film...excellent
Sound of Noise (2010)
An absurdist, zany, intense, unpredictable film. Rather amazing, really, if you can let go of an ordinary sense of plot and progression.
At the center is a group of drummers who agree to perform a series of pieces by a cutting edge composer all around the city. But their instruments become found objects, heavy machinery, office items, hospital equipment (and hospital patient), so that their performances are intrusive, dangerous, illegal, and wonderfully outrageous.
And funny. Sometimes you laugh aloud, sometimes you just are amused and amazed.
In opposition to this group is a detective who grew up in a family of musicians but who is tone deaf. And he as a special ability to track the musical perps in their crimes--which you'll see.
Kudos should also go to the filmmakers themselves, who make this craziness very fluid and beautiful. Contemporary Stockholm is shown as complex and beautiful and modern and not a Swedish Ikea stereotype.
Finally there is a kind of interpersonal plot that is sort of fun and thin and helps hold the various performance pieces together. Maybe anything more intense on this score would have watered down the absurdist heights of the best of it, but this subplot does have a feel-good pops quality that the rest of the movie avoids. And it's the rest of the movie--mainly the "music" as it happens before your eyes--that is what counts. Great stuff!
An absurdist, zany, intense, unpredictable film. Rather amazing, really, if you can let go of an ordinary sense of plot and progression.
At the center is a group of drummers who agree to perform a series of pieces by a cutting edge composer all around the city. But their instruments become found objects, heavy machinery, office items, hospital equipment (and hospital patient), so that their performances are intrusive, dangerous, illegal, and wonderfully outrageous.
And funny. Sometimes you laugh aloud, sometimes you just are amused and amazed.
In opposition to this group is a detective who grew up in a family of musicians but who is tone deaf. And he as a special ability to track the musical perps in their crimes--which you'll see.
Kudos should also go to the filmmakers themselves, who make this craziness very fluid and beautiful. Contemporary Stockholm is shown as complex and beautiful and modern and not a Swedish Ikea stereotype.
Finally there is a kind of interpersonal plot that is sort of fun and thin and helps hold the various performance pieces together. Maybe anything more intense on this score would have watered down the absurdist heights of the best of it, but this subplot does have a feel-good pops quality that the rest of the movie avoids. And it's the rest of the movie--mainly the "music" as it happens before your eyes--that is what counts. Great stuff!
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- Also known as
- Ban Nhạc Gây Rối
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- Budget
- €4,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $24,565
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $5,877
- Mar 11, 2012
- Gross worldwide
- $456,366
- Runtime1 hour 42 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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