Music

...shapeshifting puzzle is an enigmatic mind bender.

Honing the open emotion down to the intense feeling of this music—and otherwise mostly directing actors to react to things in a kind of deadpan—proves to be oddly moving, and in a way that seems only Schanelec can achieve.

Many will find Music to be too impenetrable to definitively enjoy, but some may relish in its outright dismissal of conventional narrative tenets.

Maddie Ziegler, as a teen with profound autism, is the best thing about Music