Noise is a 2007 film written and directed by Australian director Matthew Saville. The film stars Brendan Cowell, Luke Elliot, Katie Wall, Maia Thomas and Nicholas Bell.
The film is set up amongst the landscape of two potentially related murders: that of an engaged woman in Sunshine (a suburb in western Melbourne known as a high crime area), and that of seven passengers on a train in Melbourne's inner east. From there, the film deals primarily with the experiences of Lavinia Smart (Maia Thomas), a young woman who boarded the train shortly after the murders, and police constable Graham McGahan (Brendan Cowell), who is afflicted with increasingly severe tinnitus and mans the night shift of a police information van in Sunshine, and their encounters with others affected by the murders.
Noise was nominated for several Australian Film Institute Awards, Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay for Matthew Saville, and Best Actor for Brendan Cowell. It was also nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.
On 22 January 2008, Noise won Best Australian Film in the Australian Film Critics Association awards for 2007.
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