Berlin: Angela Schanelec's formally impressive film boggles as much as it allures. A multi-layered allegorical brainteaser, “Music” reframes the Oedipus myth as a substitution cipher, swapping words ...
But even that medical emergency, so harrowing in recent memory, may not be what Ickes is truly getting at in his much-lauded version of the ancient drama — which originally played at the Edinburgh ...
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 ...
The winner of the 2019 Silver Bear award returns to the Berlinale with a film inspired by the tragedy of Oedipus, starring French actors Aliocha Schneider and Agathe Bonitzer. By Jordan Mintzer Writer ...
From the first whispers of Greek mythology to the philosophical writings that shaped the Western mind, one belief remained ...
Angela Schanelec’s “Music,” which will have its world premiere on Feb. 21 in competition at the Berlinale, has debuted its trailer with Variety. The film, which stars Aliocha Schneider and Agathe ...
Dallas Theater Center’s artistic director Kevin Moriarty loves big-budget visual gimmickry, but for Oedipus el Rey, playwright Luis Alfaro’s contemporary adaptation of the 2,500-year-old Greek myth, ...
Adam Larsen has a most interesting job, although not one that’s easy to define. Trained as a cinematographer, currently he goes by the more nebulous "creative director," which more or less means ...