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Mia Aioniotita kai Mia Mera (1998)

Drama | 132 minutes / 127 minutes (DVD)
3,70 110 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 132 minuten / 127 minuten (DVD)

Alternative titles: Eternity and a Day / L'Éternité et un Jour / Μια Αιωνιότητα και Μια Μέρα

Country: Greece / Italy / France

Directed by: Theodoros Angelopoulos

Stars: Bruno Ganz, Isabelle Renauld and Achileas Skevis

IMDb score: 7,9 (15.261)

Releasedate: 23 October 1998

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Mia Aioniotita kai Mia Mera plot

Alexander is an old writer who is terminally ill. The film covers the day before it is to be shot. He has doubts about his life, how he has treated his loved ones, and whether he actually wants to be admitted. Together with a 10-year-old Albanian refugee, he makes his last journey. In search of true happiness, this journey leads him through present-day Greece and through memories of a summer day.

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dreambrotherjb

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I think this was the first (what should I call it) 'European' film that I saw (in the sense of not 'blockbuster type' and not Belgian).

I was 16 and had been playing the 'Theme' from its soundtrack on the piano for a few years. I came across that score once, and when I realized how beautiful those 2 pages of music were, I decided to google its title.

Until then my film experience was limited to the average new comedy that came out, the occasional Belgian film and here and there a (kind of) coincidental classic that I saw on TV without thinking about it.

When I saw this movie I was blown away. Actually strange when I think about it. I had no interest in poetry, I was far from a film buff, and not so long before I probably would have found such a film simply boring.

But that film brought so much news, and I loved it. The scene that I remember most is the bus scene, although I don't know why.

So it's been 5 years since I've seen it, and to be honest I'm a bit "afraid" of watching it again, because I doubt whether I would like it that much again (although I have often thought, and for the time being + fortunately that was never the case).

Anyone who wants to experience an atmosphere of philosophy and 'poetry' (is there really no better word for it) and the perfect combination thereof, should watch this film.

The image of Alexandre and his dog along the quay is one of the purest and most beautiful I have ever seen.

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Paalhaas

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Tonight I had the pleasure of seeing this film on the big screen in the cinema during the retrospective in Ghent. I think it's been 15 years since I saw the movie, and it needed some updating. I enjoyed it again, although it became clear to me that this film is perhaps a bit too contrived and forced to compete with Angelopoulos' best work. Nevertheless, the metaphor of the poet who buys words from the villagers because, as an exile, he has forgotten his mother tongue, remains for me one of the most memorable discoveries in the history of cinema.

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Fisico (moderator films)

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My first Angelopoulos I think if I'm not mistaken. Well, it looks like the Greek Fellini or Antonioni. Abstract and heavy, not very accessible. Angelopoulos takes you on a kind of local road trip between the living and the dead. All very spiritual and poetic.

The use of color is typically Greek. The colors white and blue are overrepresented and encompass the national pride of Greece. The use of camera is also strong, graceful, even graceful.

Excellent role by Ganz who spends his last day as Alexandros in the presence of an Albanian street boy. Some beautiful scenes here and there, the funeral procession, the swarm of street children diligently cleaning cars, the bus scene. Metaphorical at times and I wasn't always in the clear. I do see potential in this film and Angelopoulos, but I am less wild than most others here.

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