The Oedipus myth is still going strong. Two and a half millennia since the first performance of Sophocles’s Oedipus Rex, often considered the high point of classical tragic drama, Robert Icke ...

Electra’s tragic myth inspired Carl Jung’s Electra complex, shaping psychological views on father-daughter relationships.

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 ...

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 ...

Art History ‘Oedipus and the Sphinx’ Sensationalized Paris. Here Are 3 Things to Know About the Masterpiece. Gustave Moreau wanted to create a sensation, and he succeeded with this bold ...

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 ...

The myth of Oedipus encompasses all of this, including the pain of it all.” In the 1980s, when she was in her 20s, Schanelec worked as a theater actress for several years, before she went to ...