Sound and Fury (1988)

No no no. I don't know what this movie is trying to do, but it's not managing it. De Bruit et de Fureur (Sound and Fury) is poorly directed, and it's a downer to boot. It's in fact so much of a downer that it starts to become laughable. 

We watched this as a part of my unseen movie club, and I don't know how my friend Greg got ahold of it, but I think we were all a little embarrassed by it. Greg protested that the director, Jean-Claude Brisseau, was something of a phenom when Sound and Fury came out and that Sound and Fury itself was a Cannes darling back in 1988. I think all of us were skeptical, and then, I'm not kidding, the day after we watched this, MUBI had another Brisseau movie as their film of the day.

Greg later told me, "Well, he did call it Sound and Fury, after all."

"Signifying nothing?" I said.

"Exactly," replied Greg.