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Music

Released Jun 28, 2024

1h 48m

Drama

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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

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Justin Chang

The 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

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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

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Will Bjarnar

Geek Vibes Nation

Those who find their way to this latest piece are sure to at least walk away pondering the merits of their own life, and the things that give us hope as we stare down seemingly-insurmountable obstacles.

Rated: 6.5/10

Jul 19, 2025

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Anna Hoang

Boston Hassle

The execution in MUSIC's visuality makes it one of the most beautiful shot films of the year.

Rated: 4/5

Jul 13, 2025

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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

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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.

Director: Angela Schanelec
Producer: Kirill Krasovski
Screenwriter: Angela Schanelec, Angela Schanelec
Distributor: The Cinema Guild
Production Co: Heretic, Faktura Film GmbH, WDR/Arte, Dart Film & Video, Les Films de l'Après-Midi, Ekome
Genre: Drama
Original Language: German
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 28, 2024, Limited
Runtime: 1h 48m

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