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Eternity and a Day

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Original title

Mia aioniotita kai mia mera (Eternity and a Day)

Year

1998

Running time

130 min.

Country

Greece

Director

Theo Angelopoulos

Screenwriter

Theo Angelopoulos, Tonino Guerra, Petros Markaris, Giorgio Silvagni

Cast

Music

Eleni Karaindrou

Cinematography

Giorgos Arvanitis, Andreas Sinanos

Producer

Co-production Greece-France-Italy;

Paradis Films, Intermedias, La Sept Cinéma

Genre

Drama

Synopsis

Alexander, writer Greek habitant of Tesalónica, has some days of life and it faces the dilemma of dying as a stranger to itself, or to learn how to love, to commit and to be expressed with people that is he near. After opting for second way, Alexander reads Anna's letters, its wife deceased, and closes its house in the beach. In Salónica, a rainy day, finds the first person that offers him an opportunity to complete he desire of life: an Albanian boy to which Alexander helps to pass the frontier. Later, it counts the boy the history of a Greek poet that he lived from the childhood in Italy and that, of return in Greece, bought words forgotten to write their poems in their native language. The boy of who Alexander has taken the responsibility, looks for for his words and sells them to him. For the boy it is a game; for Alexander it is the answer to their longing of living to depth.

Rankings Position

#79 Best Movies of the '90s

Awards: 1998: Cannes: Palme d´Or (Golden Palm), Jury Prize Ecuménico

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Critics' reviews

"A piece of cinematic poetry: calm, beautiful and chilling as the eternal sea against which much of it is set"

Janet Maslin: The New York Times
"Angelopoulos has created another masterpiece, one that recalls such classics as Bergman's Wild Strawberries"

Kevin Thomas: Los Angeles Times
"Although Angelopoulos' film is not for all viewers, it rewards the patient moviegoer with an incomparable emotional journey."

Carrie Rickey: Philadelphia Inquirer
"Angelopoulos strings together so many haunting, exquisitely choreographed sequences that even his worst ideas are emotionally resonant"

Scott Tobias: AV Club
"Just as other great filmmakers have in the past explored similar themes time and again, so Angelopoulos has evolved and come up with one of his most lucid and emotional journeys"

David Stratton: Variety
"If you can tune into its somber, hypnotic wavelength, you may be surprised at the raw emotional impact it delivers in key scenes, and at its ability to provoke your imagination long afterward"

Russell Smith: Austin Chronicle

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