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Angela Schanelec Gives Oedipus Myth a Post-Modern Makeover in Berlin Competition Title ‘Music,’ in Which Songs Are a Healing Balm (EXCLUSIVE)

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Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Berlinale competition film “Music” opens with gray clouds racing across the face of a Greek mountain as a storm prepares to break.

It is a suitably dramatic prelude to the tumultuous events that will unfold, albeit rendered in an understated manner by German director Angela Schanelec, who won the Berlinale best director award in 2019 for “I Was at Home, But.” As the storm lifts, an abandoned baby boy is rescued a paramedic, who names him Jon.

Years later, Jon, now a young man, kills another man, accidentally, and ends up in prison. Here, he is tended to by a female guard, Iro, as his eyesight begins to deteriorate.

When he is released, the two get married and have a child. But several years later, his wife discovers a terrible secret. In the film, the myth of Oedipus is reworked freely.

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