Reconstruction
Time Out says
Angelopoulos' first feature remains one of his finest films, and surely counts as one of the most remarkable debuts ever made. Set in a small village in the mountains of northern Greece, it charts the investigations made by both the police and a film crew (led by Angelopoulos ) into a man's death. With its three inconsistent 'versions' of the events leading to the murder (which echoes Clytemnestra's killing of Agamemnon), the film is at once a meditation on fact and falsehood, myth and history, storytelling and cinema, and a wondrously potent combination of noir-inflected passion and incisive social study: village life is as central to the film's interests as the characters themselves. One of the most beautiful black-and-white films ever shot (Giorgos Arvanitis was evidently already a master at this stage of his career), the film also intrigues for the way it anticipates, in several respects, Kiarostami's The Wind Will Carry Us. Sheer brilliance.
Details
Release details
Duration:
110 mins
Cast and crew
Director:
Theo Angelopoulos
Screenwriter:
Theo Angelopoulos, Stratis Karras, Thanassis Valtinos
Cast:
Thanos Grammenos
Toula Stathopoulou
Petros Hoedra
Theo Angelopoulos
Toula Stathopoulou
Petros Hoedra
Theo Angelopoulos