When audience members asked "Noise" director Matthew Saville about the symbolism of his film's ending, the Australian director easily confessed.

"To be honest with you, I was laying it on with a trowel," Saville said at a Q&A after the first screening of his psychological tale about a police constable who suffers from tinnitus, a ringing in the ears. "I mean, there's the white light above from a police helicopter, a choir singing Christmas carols, the horn of Gabriel from the car, and rebirth in the form of a baby crying."

- Ellen Fagg