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  Review by Alyna Arriagada ★★★★★ 9

  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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  Review by Danny Clukey ★★★★★ 10

  "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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  Review by 💋✨Andi ✨💋 ★★★★★ 8

  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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  Review by Edgar Cochran ★★★★★ 28

  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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  Review by Jonathan White ★★★★★ 19

  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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  Review by Anna Imhof 🌸 ★★★★★ 24

  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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  Review by Andre de Nervaux ★★★★★

  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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  Review by Janica ★★★★★ 5

  It is always tough for me to articulate what I love about a film. It is comparable to attempting to explain to a lover how and why you love them, fully aware that your words will never be sufficient enough. Emotional intelligence trumps analytical intelligence. Although it defies the constraints imposed by language and reasoning, I am certain that I can only grasp some films via my own subjective experience. The best I can aim for is to compress my sentiments into manageable and expressible bits of knowledge via writing. Then, it is up to you, the reader, to develop an emotional connection with my words and map your own route to the sensation. Because of this, I have no…

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  Review by Kalpit Tandon ★★★★ 2

  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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  Review by Zegan ★★★★★ 1

  It's just a movie; it won't hurt you.

  The movie:

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  Review by Patrick ★★★★★ 4

  A helicopter approaches
  The water ripples hard against the rock
  Behold, the hand of god rises above the waves

  Children 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

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  Review by Jerry McGlothlin ★★★★★ 20

  What is the meaning of life? This is perhaps the most abstruse question humanity must reckon with, and I’m not sure there is one true answer that will satisfy everyone, but if there is, it can probably be found in Landscape in the Mist.

  Among profuse geological and man-made formations, we seem so small in the world we have found ourselves in: the smokestacks, the the mountains, the train cars, the oceans, the streetlights—beset around us on all sides as we try to navigate our surroundings in search of a truth that may not exist. That truth is variable; it depends on who is looking, but it always comes back to our heart and mind in divine symphony, searching for a…