Eternity and a day

Eternity and a day (in Greek, Μια αιωνιότητα και μια μέρα , Mia eoniótita ke mia will méra ) is a Film free - gréco - Italian of Theo Angelópoulos left in 1998. It obtained the Palme of gold to the 51e Cannes festival.

Synopsis

Whereas it feels its life to finish (it must be hospitalized and there remain to him only a few days to be lived), Alexandre, a famous writer, reminds his happy past. He meets by chance a washing child of windshield (an Albanian of Greek origin) and decides to accompany back it at the border. From this moving meeting, is born a strange road-movie, filled of oneiric flash-backs and images.

Comments

Rewarded by gold the Palm to the 51e Cannes festival in 1998, this film devotes finally the career of Theo Angelopoulos, which had already received many prices on the Riviera, but never still the supreme reward. The choice of the jury seems justified by the fact that Eternity and a day is undoubtedly the film most accessible from Angelopoulos, amongst other things realizer of the Pas suspended cicogne and of the Bee-keeper . One nevertheless finds in this film the universe of the Greek realizer where, more than of the stories, there are images of a dazing poetry, putting in scene the men in their terrestrial envelope at the catches with their environment. From these images, Eternity and a day is not deprived, quite to the contrary, as this scene taken on the gréco-Albanian border shows it where refugees cling to the barbed wires like the notes on a partition.

Data sheet

Realization: Theo Angelopoulos
Scenario: Theo Angelopoulos and Tonino Guerra, Petros Markaris, Giorgio Silvagni
Production: Eric Heumann and Giorgio Silvagni for Paradise Films, Intermedias, Seven Cinema
Photography: Yorgos Arvanitis, Andréas Sinani
Format: Colors - 1,66:1 - Its Dolby
Lasted: 130 minutes (2. 10)
Music: Eleni Karaindrou

Distribution

Bruno Ganz: Alexandre
Isabelle Renauld: Anna
Fabrizio Bentivoglio: the poet
Despina Bebedelli: the mother of Alexandre
Achileas Skevis: the child
Alexandra Ladikou: the mother of Anna
Helene Gerasimidou: Urania
Iris Chatziantoniou: the girl of Alexandre
Nikos Kouros: the uncle of Anna
Alekos Oudinotis: the father of Anna
Nikos Kolovos: the doctor

Around film

death at the beginning : The idea of Eternity and a day goes back to the death of two important people in the life of Theo Angelopoulos, according to the consent even of the realizer: that of Mikes Karapiperis, the decorator chief of first films of the scenario writer, and that of the Italian actor Gian Maria Will, died in 1994 on the turning of the Glance of Ulysses . From these two disappearances the desire rises for knowing what these people would have done if they had had one day more to live.

end of a trilogy : Eternity and a day closes a trilogy started with the Step suspended of the stork (1991) and followed Regard of Ulysses ( 1995). Three films which evoke, each one with its way, “ concept of limit or border in the communication between the beings, the love, the passage of the life to dead the ”, as explains it Theo Angelopoulos itself.

External bond

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