Oliver Hermanus' The History of Sound follows two musicians who travel to New England during the summer of 1919 to record folk songs.

In a way, then, The History of Sound must count as a daring project: an expensive Hollywood film in which two of cinema's buzziest male actors are cast as gay lovers.

“I personally don’t see the parallels at all with Brokeback Mountain, other than we spent a little time in a tent,” Mescal said at a Cannes press conference on Thursday, reportedly drawing laughs from...