“We’re nothing without the poignancy and the importance of writing,” Oliver Hermanus says of directors as we sit down to ...

Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor star in The History of Sound, a powerful period gay romance where music and love intertwine.

When director Oliver Hermanus’s queer drama, “The History of Sound,” played Cannes earlier this year, so many reviews ...

The pace of indie releases is slowing as it does this time of year before awards crush. So it’s nice to have Mubi’s The ...

What if your greatest love was your first one and any chance of happiness disappeared when it ended? That’s the haunting idea behind the new gay film romance, “The History of Sound.” Seemingly a love ...

It's the most attractive thing to witness somebody passionate about,” Mescal tells Out. Based on a story by Ben Shattuck, ...

O'Connor and Mescal both have other movies coming out this fall, including the new Knives Out movie (for O'Connor) and a ...

With Paul Mescal and Josh O'Connor as its two talented leads, the movie engages in a search for love and meaning that is ...

Oliver Hermanus—whose latest film stars Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor—recommends three books by queer writers who hid their ...

A stately but often listless period love story, "The History of Sound" is full of romantic longing but lacks a central spark. It is refined and elegant but comes off as a tepid slog.

In building the character, I got into it in the personal way that I could. And that is through listening to my grandmother’s ...

This rewrite of romantic history is a political failure. Hermanus and Shattuck forget that the word “history” derives from the Greek term that means “learning or knowing by inquiry.” The History of ...