Sound of Metal

[Available Dec. 6 available on Amazon Prime Video.] When a former heroin-addicted, heavy-metal drummer (Riz Ahmed) suddenly loses his hearing after nightly gigs and his girlfriend/musical partner (Olivia Cooke), whose widowed father (Mathieu Amalric) lives in Paris, becomes increasingly concerned in this touching, enlightening, realistic, thought-provoking, well-acted, 130-minute, 2019 film, he struggles to accept his situation, contemplates getting cochlear implants, and finally agrees to enter a deaf community after accepting help from a deaf veteran (Paul Ravi), who lost his hearing in Viet Nam, and an ASL teacher (Lauren Ridloff).
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