Music

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Music

2024

1h 48m

Drama

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35 Reviews

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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

Jul 5, 2024

Sophocles’s Oedipus Rex inspired this intentional and affecting drama.

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Justin Chang

The New Yorker

Jun 28, 2024

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.

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Glenn Kenny

RogerEbert.com

Jun 28, 2024

3/4

It is a daring and assured subversion of conventional film language that will likely infuriate certain viewers and reward others.

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Mark Asch

Screen Slate

Aug 13, 2026

Music follows “the dreamed path.” Schanelec holds every shot for exactly as long as it takes for you to realize that it’s beautiful.

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Will Bjarnar

Geek Vibes Nation

Jul 19, 2025

6.5/10

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.

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Anna Hoang

Boston Hassle

Jul 13, 2025

4/5

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

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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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