Rendező:
Theodoros AngelopoulosOperatőr:
Giorgos ArvanitisZeneszerző:
Eleni KaraindrouSzereplők:
Michalis Zeke, Tania Palaiologou, Stratos Tzortzoglou, Eva Kotamanidou, Aliki Georgouli, Nadia Mourouzi, Vasilis Kolovos, Vasilis Bouyiouklakis (több)Tartalmak(1)
Little Alexandros and his older sister Voula, in order to exorcise their loneliness, invent a secret universe for themselves, inhabited by their dreams. Every night they go to a train station to watch the departure of a train to Germany, where they have been deceived by their mother into believing that their absent father is living. One night they finally dare to get on the train. (Huesca International Film Festival)
(több)Recenziók (2)
Finally, a consistent Angelopoulos film. Otherwise, films very similar in their approach such as Voyage to Cythera and The Beekeeper had one flaw amidst their otherwise meticulously crafted beauty: the use of long shots á la Tarr or Tarkovsky along with minimalist character expression certainly created the effect of human and intellectual depth, but from my perspective, it was at the cost of a paradoxical dehumanization of the same characters. The slow camera movements, classical music, a mournful or probing gaze with a face frozen by emotional tension staring into the distance - all of this turned the characters in the director's films, especially in their most powerful moments, into mere fulfillments of artistic figures. They ceased to be flesh and bone characters and transformed into silent embodiments of general human principles, precisely when the viewer should try to understand them in the most human way possible. The situation here is almost identical, with one difference: here, Theo occasionally admits the rhetorical nature of his characters and the artistic constructiveness of the situations they find themselves in (the scene with falling snow and police officers is symptomatic in this regard). This is facilitated by the use of the road movie genre, which allows for a sequence of disparate scenes and characters, where it doesn't matter that they are just pawns/figures in the hands of the author (e.g., the ensemble cast). It also allows for the little that is truly human and spontaneous in the characters to be truly appreciated by the viewer.
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There are scenes that may not upset you at all, and then suddenly one comes along that knocks you out, and you realize how beautiful this world is, or rather, how ugly it is. Some scenes refer to its beauty, but somehow the ugliness is felt more, it's stronger and sometimes it can overwhelm the beautiful. Hopefully not for good.
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