SCREENING IN THE BERNARD OSHER FOUNDATION AUDITORIUM
“An immaculate work of cinema...exquisitely shot and unimpeachably assembled.”
108 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Angela Schanelec. In Greek and English with English subtitles. DCP.
A quietly colossal achievement from one of contemporary cinema's preeminent image makers. On a stormy night in the mountains of Greece, a pair of wayward young people abandon their newborn child. Taken in by a family of farmers, Ion grows up without knowing his father or mother. Years later, after a tragic accident, he is sent to prison, where he meets Iro. The two form a connection, expressed through music, that will, by turns, haunt them and uphold them the rest of their days. Freely inspired by the story of Oedipus, Angela Schanelec's latest is as terrifying as myth and as gentle as a folk song.