Music

Music, we are told, makes the people come together. Music, it so happens, makes the bourgeoisie and the rebel…okay, I’ll stop.

But what, really, is the, or are the, function or functions or capability or capabilities of music? By simply using the word as the title for her new motion picture, writer/director Angela Schanelec invites the questions. In her vision, the answers are more allegorical than practical. Her picture is an exquisitely constructed cinematic work that functions more like an ever-shifting visual and aural sculpture than a narrative. It is a daring and assured subversion of conventional film language that will likely infuriate certain viewers and reward others.