The Sounding
An adventurous psychological drama on the subjectivity of language, actor-turned-director Catherine Eaton’s “The Sounding” impresses more with its majestic and ageless feel than its vague ideas round the human mind. While Eaton’s story (co-written by her and Bryan Delaney) is about on the rocky coasts of up to date Maine—more accurately, a close-by storybook island called Monhegan—the location almost feels out of a deeply romantic period film, like “Portrait of a woman ablaze ,” with a fearless female lead navigating its wild and windy shores. Played by Eaton during a muscular and intensely emotive performance, she is that the striking, blue-eyed Liv; a lady who’s lived on this island her entire life, completely wordless. Raised by her scientist grandfather Lionel (Harris Yulin), Liv leads a cheerful lifetime of silence and idealistic essence on her own chosen terms. But the truth she’s known so far crumbles at some point thanks to Lionel’s flailing health and therefore the...