Sound of Noise

A group of musical terrorists come up with a plan to disrupt the city by staging a series of unique protests based on a percussive score played on found objects. The disguise themselves as doctors and break into a hospital, for example, and play a suite for surgical instruments in an operating room, using the anesthetized body on the table as one of the instruments. As if that wasn’t strange enough, the cop assigned to track them down is absolutely tone deaf and hates music. Directors Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjärne Nilsson do a great job of balancing the absurdity of the situations with a gritty realism that somehow keeps the madness rooted in reality. Bengt Nilsson is good as the tone deaf detective with the unfortunate name of Amadeus Warnebring, as is Sanna Persson as the conductor of the terrorist group. The real star of the film, though, are Fred Avril, Magnus Börjeson and Six Drummers who provide the really original soundtrack.