When Audrey Benac (Deragh Campbell) discovers a personal connection to legendary Canadian violinist Kathleen Parlow, she is compelled to dig deeper. Emotionally adrift, Audrey soon finds herself retracing Parlow’s steps, embarking on a journey from Toronto to London, Oslo, and finally Montreal. At the heart of it all is an elusive concerto, Opus 28, dedicated to Parlow and seemingly lost for over a century, but which Audrey is determined to bring to light—no matter the cost to her personal life. As Parlow herself once remarked, “Music begins where love leaves off.”
In Measures for a Funeral, the latest collaboration between actress Campbell and filmmaker Sofia Bohdanowicz, a real-life piece of music history comes thrillingly alive. Expanding the documentary-fiction elements of Veslemøy’s Song (2018) and MS Slavic 7 (2019) to a far greater emotional and narrative scale, this is a plangent exploration of time and memory. At once a ghost story, detective yarn, and archival investigation, it is a film about the mysterious power of music to move us.
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Deragh Campbell, Melanie Scheiner, María Dueñas, Maxim Gaudette, Eileen Davies
Canada/Norway/UK
2024
English
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Credits & Director
Executive Producer
Ryan Krisvoshey, Simone Urdl, Mustafa Uzuner
Producer
Aonan Yang, Andreas Mendritzki, Sofia Bohdanowicz
Screenwriter
Sofia Bohdanowicz, Deragh Campbell
Cinematography
Nikolay Michaylov
Editor
Pablo Alvarez-Mesa, Sofia Bohdanowicz
Production Design
Jessica Hart
Original Music
Olivier Alary
Sofia Bohdanowicz
Sofia Bohdanowicz is a Toronto-based, award-winning filmmaker. Her films have been showcased at prestigious festivals such as BFI, NYFF, Locarno, Berlinale, and TIFF. She received the 2017 Jay Scott Prize from the Toronto Film Critics Association, and her documentary Maison du bonheur was nominated for the Rogers Prize in 2018. Bohdanowicz is an alumna of Berlinale Talents and the TIFF Talent Accelerator. Her films are currently available on the Criterion Channel.
Filmography: Never Eat Alone (2016); Maison du bonheur (2017); MS Slavic 7 (2019); A Woman Escapes (2022)
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