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8:30 PM-10:30 PM, EST

Music

Film screening|Angela Schanelec | Retrospective

  • La Cinémathèque québécoise, Montreal

  • Language Original version with French subtitles.
  • Price General admission: 13$
  • Part of series: Angela Schanelec Revealed

Music © Shellac / Faktura Film Production

Music © Shellac / Faktura Film Production

Germany, France, Serbia, Greece | 2023 | 108 min.
Director: Angela Schanelec
With: Aliocha Schneider, Agathe Bonitzer, Marisha Triantafyllidou, Agyris Xafis, Miriam Jakob

Original version (English and Greek) with French subtitles.

Freely inspired by the myth of Oedipus.
Abandoned at birth in the Greek mountains on a stormy night, Jon is taken in and adopted, without having known his father or mother. As a young man, he meets Iro, a warden in the prison where he is incarcerated after a deadly tragic accident. She seems to seek out his presence, takes care of him, records music for him. Jon’s eyesight begins to fail… From then on, for every loss he suffers, he will gain something in return. Thus, in spite of going blind, he will live his life more fully than ever.
 
It’s the celebration of a vision Schanelec has meticulously honed over the past three decades, like a late sonata by a composer who has fully come into their voice.
- Jordan Mintzer, Hollywood Reporter

Music has been awarded best screenplay at Berlin International Film Festival 2023.