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UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES (Apichatpongg) 0

THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY (Peter Strickland, 2014) 1

LET THE CORPSES TAN (Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani, 2017) 2

ANOMALISA (Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson, 2015) 3

SONG TO SONG (Terrence Malick, 2017) 4

SPIRITED AWAY (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001) 5

VENDREDI SOIR (Claire Denis, 2002) 6

THE HEADLESS WOMAN (Lucrecia Martel, 2008) 7

BLUE (Derek Jarman, 1993) 8

BATTLE OF THE SEXES (Valerie Faris, Jonathan Dayton, 2017) 9

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Your guide to movies that also work as ASMR

LET THE CORPSES TAN (Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani, 2017) What Let the Corpses Tan lacks in conventional narrative it more than makes up for with clangs, bangs, and the squeaking of a too-tight leather outfit. (If leather is your foley fetish, then grab a bottle of wine and some fancy headphones.) Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani, named by Peter Strickland as the only horror filmmakers “doing something really transformative”, spent five months on their genre pastiche’s intricate, ASMR-inducing sound design. That’s everything from French actors dramatically gasping for air, to crisply crackling fires and heavy boots slowly crunching tiny rocks on the desert floor. “We are recreating all the breathing,” Cattet told MUBI Notebook. “You don’t hear it, but if it’s not there, you hear that it’s not there.”