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Bookmark this pageEternity and a Day (1998)
Director: Theo Angelopoulo
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
A dying author (Ganz) prepares to leave his beloved family home by the sea, and settle things with his daughter; his feelings of despair are interrupted, complicated and finally, to some extent, banished by memories of happier times with his wife (Renauld) and by an encounter with a young Albanian orphan. Angelopoulos' film, a deserving winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes '98, is a characteristically elegant, eloquent and idiosyncratic meditation on the relationships between personal and political histories, and between life and art. More intimate than, say, The Travelling Players or Ulysses' Gaze, the film nevertheless reaches out, as its long, fluid takes escort us through space and time, to universal themes and broader topicalities, effortlessly fending off charges of hermetic aestheticism.Author: GA
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- Pari said...
- Posted on Feb 01 2010 03:15 A very moving journey of life, love and finally peace. I truly enjoyed it.
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Cast & crew
Director: Theo Angelopoulo
Producer: Phoebe Economopoulos
Cast: Bruno Ganz, Isabelle Renauld, Achileas Skevis, Despina Bebedeli full cast
Rated: PG
Duration: 130 mins
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