A time travel story with no time travel, Sound of My Voice is intimate science fiction with only one concern: constructing a smart, incredibly acted puzzle for viewers to lose themselves in.
Sacha Baron Cohen tries to recapture the glory of his prior foreigner-in-America culture comedy, but a lack of heart and diminishing returns on the successful gimmick turns this into a movie of decent jokes a decade too late.
When sushi becomes art as much as it is food, the art of presenting it on film becomes transformative not only to the cuisine, but the people who make it.
The subtitles for del Toro's previous film, The Devil's Backbone, were written so poorly that he wrote the English subtitles for Pan's Labyrinth himself.
This was Mexico's first entry to the Academy Awards in the category of Best Film in a Foreign Language. It was nominated in 2006.
Actor Doug Jones was the only non-Spanish speaker on set when production began. Instead of attempting to deal with the script phonetically, he decided to learn it in its entirety in Spanish. This was later dubbed by a voice actor, though it still proved useful, as the dialog and speech could be matched up easily.