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

| Jul 5, 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.

| Jun 28, 2024

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

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 28, 2024

Hope was never something that I associated with Schanelec’s typically dour films, yet here, from the darkness of a timeless tragedy emerges light.

| Jun 27, 2024

Initially, more than mere fun, Angela Schanelec’s approach to storytelling is surprisingly affecting, but once you’ve figured out how to play, the game begins to feel a bit, well, ancient.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 27, 2023

Some will find it rewarding and some won’t; I myself am unsure. But as an event and a spur to thought it is to be welcomed.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 24, 2023

To decipher and derive meaning from a film this dense and obtuse is a Herculean task that only becomes easier when looking at it less a standalone feature, but rather as a fascinating addition to the filmmaker’s body of work.

| Feb 22, 2023

Schanelec’s approach draws the audience in, even as it holds them at arm’s length; she is uncommonly fond of wide shots. It’s an oddly fascinating endeavour.

| Feb 22, 2023

For Schanelec, every frame is a manifesto — a canvas to initially cover in layers of meaning that must then be peeled back and stripped down until nothing but the most spartan brushstrokes remain

| Original Score: B- | Feb 21, 2023

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.

| Feb 21, 2023

Schanelec is unlikely to vastly expand her fanbase here, but the tiny, fervent following she has accrued over the course of now 10 fantastically intricate features may be more than ever entranced by the fertile illogic of “Music"...

| Feb 21, 2023