LFO
LFO
A darkly comic Swedish horror/sci-fi, LFO written and directed by Antonio Steve Tublen (also Swedish, despite the name) and arrives at the Glasgow Film Festival carrying favourable comparisons to Peter Strickland's Berberian Sound Studio.
LFO stands for low frequency oscillation and like Strickland's film it turns on the paranoia, neuroses and obsessions of those who spend their waking hours in cramped studios wearing headphones and surrounded by sound-generating equipment and microphones. Think Gene Hackman in The Conversation - or oddball sound enthusiast Robert (Patrik Karlson) in LFO. He's a tinnitus sufferer with "a crummy grey personality" (according to his wife) who discovers a low-level frequency which gives him the power to control anyone who hears it. When comely new neighbour Linn (Izabella Jo Tschig) comes to the door to borrow some coffee, sexual and moral mayhem ensues.
Splendidly low budget, the action is confined almost entirely to Robert's living room, kitchen and basement, giving it a pleasingly stagey feel. But it's the growing realisation that Robert's paranoia has a far more troubling source than an obsession with sound which gives this ambitious film its heft.
Barry Didcock
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