Saturday, 10 May 2025

Noise (4 Stars)


This is the ninth film in the Stuttgart Nights Festival.

The film takes place in a large South Korean apartment building. Two sisters, Ju-Hee and Ju-Yung, share an apartment on the sixth floor. They don't get on well together. Ju-Yung has been away for a few days. It's not said where she was. With a friend? With a lover? It doesn't matter. What matters is that Ju-Yung receives a phone call to tell her that her sister hasn't been seen for four days, so she returns to look for her.

Ju-Yung is almost deaf and can only hear with the help of a hearing age, so she doesn't notice at first that there are loud noises in the apartment. The neighbour from the apartment below repeatedly visits and threatens to kill her if she doesn't stop making noise. But the noise is coming from the seventh floor. Loud banging.

The film has an unsettling atmosphere. It reminds me of "Dark Water". Is it a person making the noise? Or a ghost? Or several ghosts? The mystery slowly unravels.

A criticism I have is that the plot isn't as simple as "Dark Water". There are too many unnecessary complications. But I still want to watch it again.

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