Landscape in the Mist
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Movie Reviews of Landscape in the Mist
Movie Review: The eloquent meaning of the silence or the mist of the language!
Summary: 5 Stars
If God makes silence, the children must reinvent the world and return it its lost majesty!
Two fulminating and devastating images support the film: in the beginning of the picture the sister tells the story of the Creation to his brother for him to sleep and the other, in the end when the brother after making the awful journey tells the same story to her sister, whom in this case is frightened. The elder sister writes in the letter to his father this eloquent statement: "We don't know We are so tired that we don't know if we go forward or back, so we lose themselves..."
Let's talk the same Angelopoulos: "We live in a culture which has inherited these myths and it's necessary to destroy them, lessen them to the human dimension. It's an arrangement' s count with my natural heritage. I don't accept the fairy tales, the idea of the fate. I introduce the myth in the politic reality and that becomes history in a very different dimension. It's not an interpretation. I confer a dimension at the level of the man, due he is who makes the history, not the myth."
Silence of God, understood as the silence of the own origins. Voula and Alexandros, two brothers who desperately undertake a journey in search of an impossible and unattainable father, conceived as father, memory, origin and history.
Once more, we assist to the main concernments of this superb filmmaker, the return to historical references. Germany is then, a simple reference pattern, it's the trip what it really maters, with all the painful implications, risks and hazardous consequences this fact brings with it. Like exiled angels, they suffer in silence in an indifferent world that does not care the death of a horse in the middle of the night. And Orestes, the sole human being who really loves them, works out as the inspiring hero, who (casually ?) expresses the most pyramidal poetic moments of the movie.
The final sequence, (as a posthumous homage in Andrei Tarkovsky' s memory) when the midst vanishes is one of the most extraordinary dazzling moments in the whole history of the cinema. The countless poetic sequences are by themselves far enough to acquire this supreme masterpiece, but more important still; the way the director handles the filmic time transmuting into mythical time, with frozen human bodies when the snows falls, obligates us to rethink over and over the transcendental artistic importance of this giant film, that must be included among the best films ever made.
Extraordinary achievement. A must-have.
Because the poetry is timeless.
Movie Review: Landscape in the Mist
Summary: 5 Stars
This ravishing, utterly dreamlike road fable by Greek master Angelopoulos features some of the most remarkable visual set pieces you will ever see: a wedding party half-buried in blinding white snow, a gargantuan hand rising from the ocean. Throughout, the director evinces a strong concern with Greek history and national identity, embodied in his young protagonists' fixation on their paternity and the down-and-out actors' moribund routines. Though Voula and Alexandre's quixotic journey through wintry landscapes and along muddy back roads is largely a somber, unhappy affair, the remarkable performances, mobile camerawork, and Angelopoulos's eye for the jarring epiphany make "Mist" a demanding but ultimately enthralling experience.Movie Review: Landscape in the Mist - The other DVD version
Summary: 5 Stars
I agree with a previous reviewer that the transfer of the film on this DVD is an abomination.
The greek company NewStar is releasing (authorized by Angelopoulos) excellent transfers of
his films, including Landscape in the Mist, with english subtitles.
Movie Review: Another flawed, near masterwork from Angelopoulos
Summary: 4 Stars
I seem to have the same reaction to each of Angelopoulos' films; flawed genius. But in each film, what feels flawed and what feels masterful is different.
Mild spoilers ahead...
In this story of a 12 year old girl and her younger brother on a fruitless journey for their non- existent father in Germany what works is the ultimate emotional impact of the piece (it left me in tears), and (as always) the sheer poetic power of some of Angelopoulos' images.
On the other hand, a key supporting character (the youthful actor Oresteis) is thinly written and exists basically as an overly-convenient plot point. Some of the dialogue and ideas feel heavy handed, and some images are lifted from other director's films. And the references to his own earlier film 'The Traveling Players' are an interesting, brave style choice, but also a bit distracting and intellectual. The young girl's acting is mostly terrific, but the young boy feels fake at times, which doesn't help.
There are scenes I'll never forget. Maybe the most disturbing (yet completely hidden) rape scene I've ever seen. But other scenes feel awkward or forced.
This is the kind of film that may grow on revisiting, and I certainly plan to see it again.
If possible, get your hands on the now out-of-print 'New Star' DVD. The transfer was overseen by the director, and it blows away the New Yorker DVD.
Movie Review: Landscape in the Mist--The DVD version.
Summary: 3 Stars
I have been waiting for years for this extraordinary, beautiful film to come out on DVD. The film itself easily rates five stars, or more. But, sadly, not this DVD. The old New Yorker video was woefully inadequate. Unfortunately, New Yorker seems to have done nothing more than transfer the video onto DVD. The ratios are clearly off and the picture quality is very poor. Even the subtitles are ugly. There are no extras worth mentioning (scene selection, if you want to count that.) This is a travesty against one of the greatest cinematic artists of our time. Criterion, are you listening???
Since there are no other available forms, by all means watch the DVD or the video. Just be aware that you are not seeing the work as it was intended by the artist, Theo Angelopoulos--alas, better a poor copy than nothing at all. But hopefully, when Artificial Eye in the UK finally gets around to bringing out their version, they will do more justice to the film.