Mexican composers Rosa Esquivel (Rosa Estela Juárez Vargas) and Tere Sanchez (Teresa Sánchez) are waiting for men to interview them. Instead of going on hard ice, they discuss things that may end up being the interview questions about their compositions. Those two interviewers, Lazaro Ibanez (Gabino Rodríguez) and Paco (Francisco Barreiro), are respectful towards them. Most of their questions, for example are about work. They make assumptions about how Tere’s neighbours must feel delight in the presence of a composer. Because of blackouts and noise they take breaks, and strangely, they keep bringing up Tere’s relationships with men. After the interview, the power goes out again. Rosa and Tere talk about motherhood and Tere gets a visitor.

This film, mostly capturing a single day in Tere’s apartment, is an obvious yet apt metaphor to art and cinema. Specifically, there’s a desire to experience art, if we count interviews as art, with the least amount of distractions. The characters in Everything Else is Noise from director Nicolas Pereda make the most out of unideal circumstances.

Everything Else is Noise captures contemporary popular opinions on gender but of course, doing so with balance. It’s not necessarily interesting for it to depict Lazaro and Paco as complete doofuses, even if they worship their heroes. They talk about Tere’s married boyfriend, also a composer within earshot of her, Rosa, and Tere’s daughter Luisa (Luisa Pardo). The dialogue here hilariously illuminates the kind of assumptions that men make harmlessly.