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Extraordinary Cinema: Sound of Metal

  • John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts - Millennium Stage North 2700 F Street Northwest Washington, DC, 20566 United States (map)

Join us for a FREE film screening in the Justice Forum at the REACH. Riz Ahmed stars in this Academy Award®–winning drama about a punk-metal drummer who begins to experience intermittent hearing loss.

During a series of adrenaline-fueled one-night gigs, itinerant punk-metal drummer Ruben (Riz Ahmed) begins to experience intermittent hearing loss. When a specialist tells him his condition will rapidly worsen, he thinks his music career—and with it his life—is over. His bandmate and girlfriend Lou (Olivia Cooke) checks the recovering heroin addict into a secluded sober house for the deaf in hopes it will prevent a relapse and help him learn to adapt to his new situation. But after being welcomed into a community that accepts him just as he is, Ruben has to choose between his equilibrium and the drive to reclaim the life he once knew. Utilizing startling, innovative sound design techniques, director Darius Marder takes audiences inside Ruben’s experience to vividly recreate his journey into a rarely examined world.

Earlier Event: October 2
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Later Event: October 2
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