Sound of Noise is a 2010 Swedish-French comedy-crime film written and directed by Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjärne Nilsson.

[1] A group of six anarchist drummers led by musician Sanna Persson and a conductor named Magnus set out to make music with objects that are generally considered non-musical.

They plan out a concert with four humorously titled movements to be played across the city after carefully analyzing what objects can be used to make good music.

Warnebring eventually comes to realize that the objects and people used by the anarchists as instruments are rendered silent to his ears after the fact, due to his tone-deafness.

The film ends with the anarchists exiled from the city and performing as a lounge act while Warnebring enjoys a silent orchestral concert elsewhere.

The website's critical consensus reads, "Sound of Noise is a raucous, irreverent comedy caper with good tunes and a romantic finish.

[12] Eric Kohn of IndieWire called Sound of Noise "Bonnie and Clyde on drums", writing, "Loaded with ingeniously devised beats, it hammers out a unique rhythm deserved of many repeat performances," and "directors Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjärne make the surrealist musical set pieces into the real stars".

[13] David DeWitt from The New York Times compared the film to the similarly percussive theatrical show Stomp, and called it "a character study mixed with outlandish crime procedural.

[14] In her review of the film, Alissa Simon from Variety called it "a delightful comic cocktail of modern city symphony, police procedural and love story ... With the most complex and wackily staged musical numbers since Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Delicatessen, the pic was far more demanding to make than it is to watch".