Quite what a viewer who doesn’t go in knowing that Schanelec is interpreting Sophocles would make of this film is impossible ... by the opening is not that of Oedipus but Sisyphus.

With Edith Hall, Nick Lowe and Fiona Macintosh. Show more Sophocles’ play Oedipus Rex begins with a warning: the murderer of the old king of Thebes, Laius, has never been identified or caught ...