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A quietly colossal achievement from one of contemporary cinema's preeminent image makers. 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, Ion grows up without knowing his father or mother. Years later, after a tragic accident, he is sent to prison, where he meets Iro. 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, Angela Schanelec's latest is as terrifying as myth and as gentle as a folk song.
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Another minimalist and abstract offering from Angela Schanelec, Music is the type of art that requires surrendering impatience and logic to feel the beat.

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Soham Gadre Chicago Reader Sophocles’s Oedipus Rex inspired this intentional and affecting drama. Jul 5, 2024 Full Review Justin Chang New Yorker In unfurling the story of a boy who becomes a killer, a lover, and a singer, the German director Angela Schanelec continues to move to her own inimitable beat. Jun 28, 2024 Full Review Glenn Kenny RogerEbert.com It is a daring and assured subversion of conventional film language that will likely infuriate certain viewers and reward others. Rated: 3/4 Jun 28, 2024 Full Review Alex Heeney Seventh Row Angela Schanelec continues her exploration with loose adaptations of classic texts...Schanelec is an incredible director of bodies in space: she is so attentive to how characters move and are placed within the frame and with respect to each other. Oct 5, 2024 Full Review William Stottor Loud and Clear Reviews A sudden event has far-reaching consequences in Music, this challenging, uneven, and downright confusing Oedipal tragedy. Rated: 2.5/5 Sep 3, 2024 Full Review Diane Carson KDHX (St. Louis) A candidate for what is now called “slow cinema” or, more aptly, “poetic cinema,” “Music” is unique, at times puzzling, and memorable. Aug 26, 2024 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis A quietly colossal achievement from one of contemporary cinema's preeminent image makers. 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, Ion grows up without knowing his father or mother. Years later, after a tragic accident, he is sent to prison, where he meets Iro. 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, Angela Schanelec's latest is as terrifying as myth and as gentle as a folk song.
Director
Angela Schanelec
Producer
Kirill Krasovski
Screenwriter
Angela Schanelec, Angela Schanelec
Distributor
The Cinema Guild
Production Co
WDR/Arte, Ekome, Faktura Film GmbH, Dart Film & Video, Les Films de l'Après-Midi, Heretic
Genre
Drama
Original Language
German
Release Date (Theaters)
Jun 28, 2024, Limited
Runtime
1h 48m