IMDb 7.8/10 (14 votes)
USA, 2005, 35mm, 107', b/n
regia, montaggio, suono, produttore/director, film editor, sound, producer Amir Naderi
sceneggiatura/screenplay Abou Barman, Heater Murphy, Amir Naderi fotografia/director of photography Michael Simmonds
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Charlie Wilson (Jesse), Frank Glacken produzione/production Alphaville Films
Plot: Jesse, an eleven-year-old deaf-mute, finally has a way to discover the truth about his mother’s death. He leaves Manhattan for Queens with a letter and key to a warehouse, but the voyage is only the first and the easiest of many obstacles, beginning with the difficulty of understanding what is recorded on the music cassette he finds in a room inside the warehouse.
“All of my experience over the years in making films came together in this film, to a point that I had wanted to reach all my life. In making Sound Barrier I discovered how much I could push beyond my limits, and in so doing learned many things about myself and my work. Sound Barrier told me I could begin a film I have been planning for years, as the second part of my sound trilogy. It was one of the reasons I left my country. A film about the moon. I have always had a dream of being on the moon; it is exactly where I want to be. This is the beginning of a new path for me.” (A. Naderi)
[quote]The Jury of the Filmcritica Award "Bastone Bianco" of the 23rd Torino Film Festival... after examining the films presented in the categories International Feature Film Competition, Out of Competition, Detours and Americana - after dwelling in particular on the works by Amir Naderi, Aleksandr Sokurov and Werner Herzog - by majority decision would like to award SOUND BARRIER by Amir Naderi.
Citation: For the extreme experimentation with which he breaks down the barrier between sound, sight and touch, in a form which touches the madness of Herzog and the tragic utopia of the story by Sokurov.[/quote]
[quote]Both stylistic tour-de-force and neverending assault on one's patience, Amir Naderi's latest black-and-white excursion into obsession may be the most extended mise en scene of pure frustration in cinema history, as a deaf-mute boy searches for answers on an old audio tape of his dead mother's voice. Formally abstract yet intensely emotional, pic returns to the concentrated minimalism of Naderi's seminal Iranian works, but with a frenzy and fragmentation all the stronger for being crammed into two impossibly claustrophobic spaces. A fest must-see, this demanding masterwork could command fringe arthouse play
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Like Naderi's Teheran-set "The Runner," or his New York-set "Marathon," "Barrier" is about fierce concentration on deciphering seemingly unintelligible codes deeply embedded in specific topography. Stubbornness and anger prove potent enablers, and "Barrier" ends in unlikely, strangely solitary, triumph.
Mike Simmonds' stunning black-and-white lensing defies spatial limits and pedestrian self-preservation. Imagery is rhythmically kaleidoscoped through 1,753 separate cuts, though one might mourn the budgetary strictures that forced Naderi to switch from Super-16mm to HD.
[ http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117926 ... egoryId=31 ]
"It is one of the most stunning films I have seen this year." -- Peter Scarlet, Director of the Tribeca Film Festival on the Leonard Lopate Show on WNYC, April 19, 2005
Sound Barrier: Iranian master Amir Naderi's latest dispatch from the streets of his adopted New York represents a return to the themes of his seminal The Runner. Fending for himself in an indifferent city, a deaf boy searches for the remaining traces of his dead mother, a radio talk show host who left behind a collection of audio cassettes in a Greenpoint warehouse. As is customary in Naderi's oeuvre, sound design is crucial, and the movie gradually builds to an aural tour de force set on a congested bridge. Exhilarating and exhausting — with a finale that is quite literally an epiphany.
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Sound Barrier (Amir Naderi 2005)(TVRip - VOSITA).avi 
this one is surely amazing!