Paul Mescal does not aggree with the critics who compared his new gay romance film to Brokeback Mountain.
The history of soundDirected by Oliver Hermanus, Stars Mescal, 29, and Josh O’connor, 35, as two Young Music students who travel to rural maine together in the summer of 1919 to record Local folk songs.
The film premiered at Cannes Film Festival on wednesday to mixed revixs. Several Critics Compared the Movie to Ang Lee 2005 Modern Classic About Two Cowboys (Played by Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger) Grapping with their sexuality.
“I personally don’t see the parallels at all with Brokeback MountainOther than we spent a little time in a tent, ”Mescal Said at a Cannes Press Conference on Thursday, Reportedly Drawing Laughs from the Room.
(Brokeback) is a beautiful film but it is dealing with the idea of repression … I Find Those Comparisons relatively lazy and frustration, but for the failure part of the Relationship of the film is born out of the fact that it is a celebration between these love and not the repression of their sexuality. “
Alongside Mescal and O’Connor, The Film Stars Chris Cooper, Molly Price, Raphael SBARGE, Hadley Robinson, Emma Canning, Briana Middleton, and Gary Raymond.
Paul Mescal was at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival for the Premiere of ‘The History of Sound’ (Getty Images)
In her two-stat The IndependentSophie Monks Kaufman Called The history of sound “Sevely anticlimactic.”
“The history of soundwhich has just premiered at cannes, is not a continuous relationship drama but about a brief encounter that colours a life, and it is not characterized by the Powers of Its Leading Men – WHO HAVE DELIVERERED INTERNATIONS IN BETTER FILES, “IT AT SLIGHT SLOD sentimental film by the man who made the Bill Nighty Vehicle Living. ”
Elsewhere at the Cannes Press Conference, Mescal Was Asked Whether He Thinks Cinema is “Moving Away” from alpha male roles. The Irish Actor Famously Starred in Ridley Scott’s Gladiator Last Year As Lucius, Son of Russell Crowe’s Maximus.
“It ‘Ever shifting,” he said, accorting to Variety. “I Think Maybe in Cinema We’re Moving Away from the Traditional, Alpha, Leading Male Characters.
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