Chicago Tribune

OEDIPUS HAD ENOUGH STRESS WITHOUT FILM ADDING ITS OWN

Thanks to Sigmund Freud, the Oedipus myth has become the modern model for extreme psychological distress, so I suppose it`s appropriate that a film version of this tale of parricide and mother-son ...
Variety

Angela Schanelec Gives Oedipus Myth a Post-Modern Makeover in Berlin Competition Title ‘Music,’ in Which Songs Are a Healing Balm (EXCLUSIVE)

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 Quietus

Sophocles, So Good: Oedipus Rex Revisited

This double-disc Blu-ray/DVD package offers an ideal opportunity to assess the place of Oedipus Rex (Edipo Re) in the history of ideas about the ancient world. Paradoxically, much of what we think ...
IndieWire

‘Music’ Review: The Oedipus Myth Gets Remade, with Often Flummoxing Returns

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 ...
Los Angeles Times

An impassioned musical revival of ‘The Gospel at Colonus’ draws from the book of Oedipus

Lee Breuer and Bob Telson’s “The Gospel at Colonus,” this year’s livelier-than-usual outdoor theater production at the Getty Villa, combines disparate ritual traditions. Ancient Greek tragedy is ...