Sound of My Voice

Builds an intense mood from its attention-grabbing opening, and lets you just stew in the tension. Could have used a bit more work on the main couple's character and the ending, but this is already a work that engages you, both emotionally and intellectually. Brit Marling's acting is mesmerizing.

Being intentionally evasive is not the same as being intelligent.

Brit Marling follows up "Another Earth" with another low-budget, low-key psychological drama that may or may not be a distant cousin of "Looper" but, regardless of how you choose to interpret it, becomes an excellent little study of how people choose to believe or not believe in something unbelievable. Keep your eyes peeled.

A mildly unsettling psychological thriller that toys with the viewer's perceptions by being effectively ambiguous. But it is essentially an enjoyable exercise in "choose your own interpretation" and it never aspires to be something more.

A subtle film which really plays with the viewer and asks them what they would be prepared to believe, via the proxy of its two central characters. This was an intriguing angle, and the performances were fine, but I didn't feel the film had a whole lot going for it beyond that - either in terms of suspense, plot, characters or anything else. In contrast to the similarly tricksy "Safety Not Guaranteed", this one had few redeeming or enjoyable features outside of its central conceit. Average.

The entire purpose of this film is to parade Brit Marling in front of the camera like some kind of acting show horse. I'm okay with that.

The nerd in me, the one that enjoyed movies like Pi, Primer, and Memento, absolutely loved this. Note that my inner nerd doesn't care so much for acting/direction/cinematography or pretty much anything other than concept and a mesmerizing blonde (which worked like a charm on me so all of this might be moot). ..fckin HATE that GFs face tho am i right?

I really loved Brit Marling's last writing/starring credit, Another Earth, but this one was more troubled. It starts and ends strongly, but there's problematic areas in between where character motivations feel haphazard and unconvincing. The film is divided up into "chapters" in a pointlessly Tarantinoesque flourish.

There's something interesting there, for sure. Its just a shame that we never know what it is. I hate abrupt endings, this was one if the worst

(SECRET OF MY HANDSHAKE)

A movie about a couple that wants to make a documentary filmed using a crappy digital camera -- some meta-ness going on there? Anyway, this movie rests solely on Brit Marling and she does a good job being pretty and captivating. It's just a shame that it feels a bit too underdeveloped and brief, especially with the abrupt climatic ending. Even though Martha Marcy May Marlene was a bit of a mess, it's the better recent "cult" movie. Hey look, I'm Armond White, comparing movies.

Disappointment. An ambitious first half of the movie suddenly ends and you realize there is no second half. That's it, the whole deal. This is no movie with open ending. This is a movie with the whole second half missing.

The main problem of this movie is that the story doesn't really work regardless of whether the girl is from the future or not

Would make a nice accompanying piece to The Master. Although I feel like there’s a lot less “there” under the surface. The Master we have at home

Subtle (sci-fi?) drama. Brit Marling is impressive...

Really excellent setup, with a fairly weak payoff. There's a point after which everything basically happens as you think it will, so it comes to a bit of an anti-climax. And Denham does not have the chops to sell his character's underlying anger; the moments where he lashes out just seem weird and wrong. Marling is good, however, and the movie's brave commitment to long scenes of conversation reminded me of Breaking Bad (in a good way). Rough around the edges but overall good.

I can't tell if I hate it or love it. And I also can't tell what what I watched exactly meant. It reminds me of the movies The Skeleton Key and Cloud Atlas in the ambiguity.

As said in many other reviews this has great potential but squanders it by cutting short just when it gets intensive. The facts are there but they just choose to end it before revealing everything.

A brilliant opening then a good, steady, measured building up... Really enjoyed this one.

I cannot get over how much I love Brit Marling and everything she does.

Hushed and chilling and deliberately strange, with moments of uncomfortable suspense that'll pin you to your seat. Never really coheres like Marling's ANOTHER EARTH did, though. It's all setup and idea, and never does the point of this admittedly ballsy undertaking shine fully through. Definitely worth a look, though.

such a crazy, creepy film - but also really really good. a real mind-fuck kind of movie, but it was a ton of fun to watch and really memorable. just thinking of how difficult the script was to write and execute properly makes the film that much more impressive.

Very difficult to score, given that it is really set up as a cliffhanger, but where it appears the follow-up movies may never get made, so the audience is left with a bunch of frustratingly unexplained puzzle pieces. What was there was intriguing enough, and if the sequels ever appear, the score for this one could conceivably get bumped up.

wish it was longer and the final more worked on.. a totally unexpected sci-fi gem

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Solid indie thriller. Brit Marling is about as multifaceted as you can be in the entertainment industry.

A great, captivating watch. Great acting and interesting plot. At first glance the ending may seem a bit standard, but if you think more about the whole film/explore some of the theories people have come up with on the internet/IMDb message boards you'll soon find that there's a lot more than meets the eye. A lot of things aren't adequately explained, it's up to the viewer to interpret how it all fits together. Pretty much everything in this film has some sort of ambiguity to it. Interesting!

like a bad 90 minute episode of The Outer Limits. This film proves that Brit Marling is not as clever as she thinks she is.

The old is she or isn't she. I was reminded of Faults, which will never be a bad thing. I'd give my nod to Faults, even though that movie didn't feature a group vomit scene. Kudos to the one sane person in the entire world who read this script and said, "No, it doesn't need to be a found footage film." What a trailblazer!

So what?

Shitty ending

Brit Marling kills it

Brit Marling is impressive

Entertainment: 3.5/4. Spirituality: 1/3. Sustainability: 0.5/3.

Intriguing, even quite tense, and some scenes are quite strong, but the text falters or overreaches a few times too many. Frames dividing the film into about ten episodes seemed odd and redundant. Denham plays quite well in the lead, and the acting generally pulls the script up and together as much as possible.

After a promising opening--a genuine sense of tension and mystery--SOUND OF MY VOICE crumbles under the weight of a pretentious script, annoying leads (Christopher Denham, especially), and a plot structure which suggests nothing so much as a bad TV pilot; a shame, because there are moments in the directing and in Brit Marling's (nicely enigmatic) performance as the alleged time traveler that show what this could have been. Intended as the first part of a trilogy; the sequels may flesh it out.

It kind of felt like the embodiment of tumblr and Vimeo video posts. There is nothing wrong with the direction, but the movie looks too clean and the writing is too bland for any of it to really engage the viewer. I think I groaned nearly every time Marling's supposed sage spoke. Not much can be said about the Sound of My Voice. It's forgettable and doesn't thrill too much.

Not half as compelling as it seems to think it is.

Have always been a fan of Brit Marling yet never got around to seeing this one. It's incredibly slow during the middle half, but it's quite short and the climax sneaks up on you and is worth the wait. A shining example of less is more done right. I wanted to give this a 6 at best, but for some reason they won me over w the ending. It'll be polarizing though. 6.7

If anything, this makes my disdain for Another Earth more resolute.

Cult about a woman