T his high-minded, dense and in many ways impressive drama about classical music from Canadian director Sofia Bohdanowicz could serve as an introspective companion piece to Tár . Where Todd Fields’ film was concerned with artists out in the world and modern cancel culture, here the focus is unswervingly on art itself: its inner sustaining emotional function for the artist and, more widely, for all of us.

Deragh Campbell stars as academic researcher Audrey Benac, a character she has played before for Bohdanowicz, including in Veslemøy’s Song , the 2018 short from which Measures for a Funeral has been expanded. This time Audrey is on the trail of Kathleen Parlow, a virtuosic real-life 20th-century violinist who, in this film, tutored her grandfather. Music weighs heavily on the Benac f

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