Music
Director: Angela Schanelec Run Time: 108 min. Release Year: 2023 Language: Greek (modern)
Starring: Agathe Bonitzer, Aliocha Schneider, Argyris Xafis, Frida Tarana, Marissa Triantafyllidou
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.
NORTH CAROLINA PREMIERE
“Time throughout Music speeds up and slows down, as the punctuation of violence gives way to a wash of the minor and everyday, which feel dreamlike in their lightness after the density of death.” ~ Shonni Enelow, Reverse Shot
“It’s a puzzle whose edges are complete but whose center, the parts of the picture most others would focus on, we have to imagine for ourselves.” ~ Pat Brown, Slant