The Muted, Melancholy Synesthetics of “The History of Sound”
- Posted on September 11, 2025
- By The New Yorker
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The Muted, Melancholy Synesthetics of “The History of Sound”

In Oliver Hermanus’s period drama, Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor play music lovers whose passions prove less tempestuous than isolating.