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MOVIE REVIEW
Music (2023)
This is a puzzling and frustrating film about – well. It's told in fragments, with only the bare minimum of dialogue, with songs (primarily opera) serving as verbal cues for what is doing on. This kind of minimalism – over four decades pass; and the action slowly morphs from Greece to Germany without anything directly being said about it – is so minimalist it's tricky to know what writer-director Angela Schanelec was going for, though she won the award for Best Screenplay at this year’s Berlinale for it. “Music” is one of those emotional experiences it might take another couple decades for me to process. Does this make it good? I don't know.