Sound of Noise

SOUND OF NOISE is a wildly inventive and hilarious film about a band on a mission to cause random acts of musical mayhem. The tone deaf and unfortunately named Amadeus Warnebring is a cop. One day Amadeus stumbles onto an opus in the making. A runaway van has smashed into the German embassy and there's a ticking sound coming from it. As onlookers draw back in fear of a terrorist bomb, Amadeus knows better. He strides up to the vehicle and extracts a ticking metronome. This is but the prelude to a symphony of anarchic public performances staged by a group of six guerrilla percussionists. As they target important civic institutions, the musical terrorists' pieces correspond to an avant-garde score with four pricelessly titled movements. The cops vow to “rid this city of musical scum!” But as Amadeus gets closer to tracking down the perpetrators, he embraces the chaos and ends up composing the most beautiful piece of all. (In Swedish with subtitles) –B.B.