'The History of Sound' is done and debuting at Cannes

Highly anticipated period drama 'The History of Sound' is complete and right around the corner, debuting at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival this May. MUBI just got the distribution rights for the United States and Canada, while Universal Pictures International is taking care of the international distribution, meaning we might have the film hitting theaters by the end of the year.

Starring Irish actor Paul Mescal, alongisde British actor Josh O'Connor, the movie will be an intense drama focusing in the complicated relationship between Lionel (Mescal) and David (O'Connor), two men travelling together while they record and document the music of the countryside, all around rural New England, and their forbidden romance in a different, less accepting, time.

The original idea is from a short story of the same name by writer and artist Ben Shattuck, who also worked on the script with the director Oliver Hermanus, known for movies like 'The Endless River', a critical darling from 2015, or his most recent film starring Bill Nighy and Aimee Lou Wood: 'Living'.

His previous films have won him different accolades and most of them have been strong competition in all the festivals they were participating in, with Hermanus' "Beauty" winning the Queer Palm Award at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. With some luck, and with the amazing talents attached to 'The History of Sound', we will be seeing a lot of it this upcoming festival circuit, and maybe next year's award season.