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Two children search for their father who is supposed to live in Germany. Their obsession for this father figure will take them to the boundaries between childhood and adolescence.
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Landscape in the Mist
1988 ‘Τοπίο στην ομίχλη’ Directed by Theo Angelopoulos
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Sofinergie 1 Basic Cinematografica Compagnie Generale d'Images Paradis Films Theo Angelopoulos O.E. Greek Film Centre La Sept Cinéma EPT RAI
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Landscape In The Mist, Topio Stin Omichli, Paysage dans le brouillard, Landschap in de Mist, Paisaje En La Niebla, Topio stin omihli
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Watching films like Landscape in the Mist is the main reason why I love this site so much. I don't remember the exact circumstances that led to my viewing of this film, but I know that without Letterboxd I never in a quadrillion years would of ever discovered that this film, or any similar to it (such as Tarkovsky's films), even existed. It's truly a beautiful thing.
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"If I were to shout, who would hear me out of the armies of angels?"
Landscape in the Mist is the second Angelopoulos film I delved into today along with 'Eternity and a Day' - Angelopoulos may just be one of the greats!
Deliberate emotional complexity -- Landscape in the Mist is a difficult film to watch in many areas yet is a truly unforgettable experience. I found myself deeply moved by the damage inflicted to these children in the raw, emptiness of the world portrayed in the film. We follow the journey from Greece to Germany in hope to seek out their theoretical father ... along the way, they experience confusion, violation and epic indifference to their real and…
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Sinegang 2nd Weekly Pick Cycle: Pick #5
By Angge"The first time, it's always as if you're dying."
Landscape in the Mist is unexpectedly heartbreaking and transcends its medium into something so much more: a poem? A distressing fairytale? The film has a simple plotline of two children finding their estranged father and yet there is so much meaning to be found beneath the surface. The children are on a journey in search of something that they’re not sure is even there, and it is a painful one. You are led to question if the journey was worth it in the end. How are our paths different from Voula and Alexandros? “It’s as if you’re going nowhere, and yet you’re…
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After a very exhausting and demanding early filmography, the master of stillness and mythical symbolism Theodoros Angelopoulos forms part of the international cinematographic melodrama that directors such as Giuseppe Tornatore (Nuovo Cinema Paradiso [1988]) applied in their films. Perhaps that could be the main reason that Angelopoulos, once again, gained such a massive international attention since his WWII epic O Thiasos (1975). Despite this, Topio Stin Omichli easily belongs to his Top 5 films and has still a very present trademark of his own. Incorrectly considered as a road movie instead of a "road-to-nowhere movie", its metaphysical power and cinematic beauty have still the utter power of offering several symbols to be interpreted, a haunting and subjective ending sequence, and…
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Whistle stop #19, Greece, on:
Lise & jonnie Around the World 2016
I’m not a religious man, but I think it was divine providence that my wife and I chose the Greek Master Theo Angelopoulos’s Landscape in the Mist for our viewing this Good Friday. Possibly influenced by the day; I saw Voula and Alexandros metaphorical journey to be one of a quest for God, beginning with the ‘fable’ of creation, with the Christ story interleaved on the way.
Although I’ve only seen a single Angelopoulos before this, the brilliant Eternity and a Day, seeing this one transported me back to the pale blue cast and a camera that is lovingly moving even when you think it is still. Angelopoulos and…
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Who am I? I'm a snail slithering away into nothingness... I don't know where I'm going. Once I thought I knew.
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Closure is an intoxicating feeling. It promises hope to a desolate, peace to somebody tormented and light to steer away concealed darkness. It was by no means that the young brother and sister were only searching for their father in Greek countryside. They were seeking closure.
Landscape in the Mist is a dreamlike fable capturing the essence of adolescence with all its bittersweet trappings. Time stands still and places dissolve into one another as the narrative plunges us headfirst into surreal poetry with aching monologues and delicate heartbreaks. Exquisitely scored and flooded with allegories, Theo Angelopoulos' work is wonderously suspended between bleakness and beauty.
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How many movies do you know that feel like the director magically accessed your soul, took everything they found in there, all of the beauty, all of the ugliness, and put it on film?
Exactly.
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This film tells the story of brothers and sisters who want to find their unidentified father, armed only with information from the mother, who says that their father is in Germany.
The plot in this film is very simple and light, then the shooting of the cinematography is very beautiful coupled with the amazing scoring makes this film special. In the middle, this film becomes a bit dark, and before the middle of the film, it is presented with an unexpected plot twist, which makes the siblings' journey just in vain.
i think this will be my favorite movie
MASTERPIECE FROM THEO ANGELOPOULOS -
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A helicopter approaches
The water ripples hard against the rock
Behold, the hand of god rises above the wavesChildren watch in fear
In realization
In disbelief
Is this the father they’ve been searching for?A false promise made of stone
Soaring in the sky
It’s rotten index finger points at our world with pity
The helicopter vanishes in the mist of the clear sky -
What better way to portray the boundary between innocence and adolescence through the eyes of the naturally innocent, children? So innocent, in fact, unaware of the nonexistent grail, the unreachable treasure—clouded by their innocuous naivety.
Embarking on this elegiac journey, Angelopoulos depicts the cruel and bitter, only sometimes forgiving world the two children happen to live in. As the film progresses, rather than the search for their father, the journey becomes a search for peace, for the warmth of being carefully held. The director equally focuses on the background of the scenes as he does the foreground, binding the two seamlessly.
In just under 24 hours, Theo Angelopoulos has quickly become one of my favorite directors through his hypnotically operated camerawork, as well as his use of blending music and poetry. I still haven't stopped thinking about Eternity and a Day, and this film will be no different.