Out of Sync (2021) User Reviews

A story of an Ilness or a sync problem?

[AvionPrince16 · 5/10 · 26 September 2022]

I need to say that im pretty disappointed. The movie itself dont have a real story behind it: its just a movie where a woman suffer from a sync problem: i dont know if someone else experienced that: is it a real sickness? Or just did it for the movie? I dont really know but with that problem this is the main interest of the movie and the huge disappointment too. They did it because this kind of problem can give an original point of view and give a different experience visually and in the sound too. But beside that we are experiencing a new way to see and to feel things the movie is really boring and dont have anything else to say except that. Thats the biggest problem of this movie. For example, Memento give us to see a man who have amnesia and the camera shots and the structure follow his sickness. Thats good but they also put a story where we can see in the real situation how it can become dramatic and realise that the man is chasing himself because he already killed the killer of his wife and thats a twist that make us think about the whole problem of this sickness. But for the movie out of sync except the description of the sickness it really have nothing in it. The story is really empty; yes she get hired again in the company but thats all. I really found the movie boring and meaningless. It could be so much more but the movie is very selfish and dont give something more meaningful. The movie could be a documentary and will be so much more interesting than the movie itself: to learn more of this problem ( if it really exist or not). Im completely disappointed and believe me that i am a real patient man but this one cant satisfy us in any point: characters, stories, plot, morality. A huge disappointment for me.

An offbeat, slow and somewhat boring film with many bizarre events.

[ma-cortes · 4/10 · 15 January 2024]

We are in our days, in Barcelona. We meet a sound designer, specialized in adding sounds for movies, series, spots... We soon find out that she is so dedicated to her work that many nights she sleeps in the studio. We will also soon learn that she has recently broken up with her partner, who orders her to leave her house, as it is the property of her ex-boyfriend, and he has rebuilt her life with another woman. We also learn about his not-too-fluid relationship with her mother, and, in particular, that the protagonist (whose name is never pronounced) is beginning to suffer a strange distortion, in such a way that she hears the sounds a few seconds later. When they actually occur. This gap gets worse: she goes to her doctor, but it seems that there is no physiological problem. However, following a test to establish possible genetic problems, she learns something that shakes her life and, in turn, further accentuates the asynchrony between sounds and the moment in which she perceives them. But is her brain starting to slip out of sync?

A weird and very strange film in which a sound designer finds refuge from broken relationships with her ex, her colleagues and her mother in the studio, where she can spend hours recording rare sounds, wild tracks, editing and mixing. The fim, shot in A Coruña, Galicia, and Barcelona, Spain, is quite outlandish, full of enigmas and unanswered questions. Due to all of this it turns out to be slow moving, boring and very cryptic. Despite having some good reviews, I have not been able to understand it and I have been disappointed by it, becoming heavy and extremely long. We are reminded of this Tres (2021) film by Brian de Palma, Blow out (1981), with John Travolta as a long-suffering sound engineer involved in a murder. But we must consider that Marta Nieto's performance is frankly excellent, along with Miki Esparbé, although it is necessary to highlight the fact that they are the only two known actors of the show.

The motion picture was slowly and mediocrely directed by Juanjo Giménez Peña. The film got several nominations and prizes in various Festivales, such as: Goya Awards (best sound), Miami Film Festival, Venice, Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival, Palm Springs International Film , Gaudi Awards, Jose María Forqué Awards, International Cinephile Society Awards, Feroz Awards, Maestre Mateo Awards, Lithuanian Film Awards . Gimenez Peña previously made notorious shorts, such as: Timecode (2016), the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Festival in the short film format. Timecode was also nominated for the Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film, and was also awarded at the Goyas, the European Cinema Awards, and the Gaudí Awards, the Catalan Goyas. Giménez is a filmmaker who until now had specialized almost monothematically in filming short films, of which over 25 years he has filmed a total of nine. Also, it is true, at the beginning of this 21st century he filmed the feature film We Are Missing (Tilt) (2001), which passed largely unnoticed, and the episodic film Kürzpasse (2006), whose direction he shared with nine other filmmakers. Rating: 4.5/10.

beautiful and unexpected

[mejiadaniel-70925 · 9/10 · 24 March 2022]

First review I ever write in IMDB.

I had to, this movie is different, unexpected, sad and beautiful. It made me wonder, it made me uncomfortable, it made me smile and it touched me.

Spoilers ahead (or not) It is a slow paced movie and requires patience and attention, but it is probably the best movie about witches I have seen in a long time, if not ever!