The Sound and the Fury
The film gives us a look at the trials and tribulations of The Compson siblings, living in the deep south during the early part of the 20th century. It is told from four different perspectives: the mentally handicapped Benjy Compson, the fragile intellectual Quentin, the vile Jason and his family's old black servant, Dilsey.
22 May 1946, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
25 August 1963, West Virginia, USA
14 March 1965, Hollywood, California, USA
11 May 1964, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
30 July 1999, Los Angeles, California, USA
1 November 1976, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
15 April 1982, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
29 October 1976, Vienna, Austria-Hungary
11 June 1979, Evanston, Illinois, USA
29 December 1976, Statesboro, Georgia, USA
22 July 1989
September 07, 2014
Looking at [Franco's] workload, you wonder when the man switches off. Then you go to the films themselves, and find the answer.
October 27, 2015
James Franco's messy Faulkner adaptation has mature themes.
September 12, 2014
This, Franco's most ambitious project, is his best film by far.
September 11, 2014
Franco probably has eight other things on the go at the moment (among them no fewer than three upcoming directorial features) which could account for why his "The Sound and the Fury" feels like maybe an eighth of a film.
September 07, 2014
Its surfeit of half-baked film-student flourishes and needless cameos occasionally give it an amateur-hour feel. But Franco nonetheless shows improvement over 2013's "As I Lay Dying," and well, it's hard to fault him for trying.
November 17, 2014
The Sound and the Fury is a step in the right direction for Franco the director, but it still doesn't quite suggest he's on the verge of something truly great. Yet, at least.
September 09, 2014
The Sound And The Fury is a tragedy.
September 24, 2014
One can say that Faulkner is unfilmable, but any work will be unfilmable when it is being adapted by a talentless director.
September 28, 2014
Replete with ludicrous buck-toothed prosthetics, plenty eyeball rolling, grunting and drooling, Franco goes further on the 'full retard' front than any actor in film history.
