Music

Winner! Best Screenplay, Berlin International Film Festival 2023

Celebrated German filmmaker Angela Schanelec ( I Was at Home, But …) deconstructs the myth of Oedipus and rearranges it into a song all her own in the award-winning drama, Music. On a stormy night in the mountains of Greece, a pair of wayward young people abandon their newborn child. Taken in by a family of farmers, Jon grows up without knowing his father or mother. Years later, after a tragic accident, he is sent to prison, where he meets Iro, a prison officer who shows him great affection and tenderness.  The two form a connection, expressed through music, that will, by turns, haunt them and uphold them the rest of their days. Freely inspired by the story of Oedipus, writer/director Schanelec’s latest is as terrifying as myth and as gentle as a folk song. (Dir. by Angela Schanelec, 2023, Germany/Greece/France/Serbia, in Greek/German/English with English subtitles, 108 mins., Not Rated)

Other festivals: Berlin, Toronto, New York