Eternity and a Day (1998)
Country: GR/FR/IT/GER
Technical: col 133m
Director: Theo Angelopoulos
Cast: Bruno Ganz, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Ahilleas Skevis
Synopsis:
On the point of being admitted to hospital for a terminal condition, a poet looks back over his life, that of the Italian poet whose work he has attempted to finish, and meets an ethnic Greek child who has fled Albania and from whom he buys words after the manner of his predecessor.
Review:
Like much of this director's work a sort of journey through space and history, shot in a bleak landscape with interminable takes in which not a lot happens. The cumulative effect can be hypnotic, and looks take the place of words, but it does get repetitive this time in its inexorable staging of theatrical tableaux.
Country: GR/FR/IT/GER
Technical: col 133m
Director: Theo Angelopoulos
Cast: Bruno Ganz, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Ahilleas Skevis
Synopsis:
On the point of being admitted to hospital for a terminal condition, a poet looks back over his life, that of the Italian poet whose work he has attempted to finish, and meets an ethnic Greek child who has fled Albania and from whom he buys words after the manner of his predecessor.
Review:
Like much of this director's work a sort of journey through space and history, shot in a bleak landscape with interminable takes in which not a lot happens. The cumulative effect can be hypnotic, and looks take the place of words, but it does get repetitive this time in its inexorable staging of theatrical tableaux.
Country: GR/FR/IT/GER
Technical: col 133m
Director: Theo Angelopoulos
Cast: Bruno Ganz, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Ahilleas Skevis
Synopsis:
On the point of being admitted to hospital for a terminal condition, a poet looks back over his life, that of the Italian poet whose work he has attempted to finish, and meets an ethnic Greek child who has fled Albania and from whom he buys words after the manner of his predecessor.
Review:
Like much of this director's work a sort of journey through space and history, shot in a bleak landscape with interminable takes in which not a lot happens. The cumulative effect can be hypnotic, and looks take the place of words, but it does get repetitive this time in its inexorable staging of theatrical tableaux.