One night I dreamed about this man. It was a confused old man that ran a foggy street walking a dog wandering in search time. A man who seemed to have lost the whole story, able to turn a blind eye to check unstoppable death. I do not know how I ever loved, suddenly, this film until recently caused me a sincere jealousy (is told below.)
"Eternity and a Day" is a peaceful acceptance of death. It reminds us very much to "Wild strawberries" Bergman, as the old man's unfathomable journey to the final conflict with beautiful memories and the caress of social decay, as a backdrop. Perhaps this film manages to take a small step Beyond the key work of Swedish director. In "Eternity and a Day" there is an oppressive shadow of religion, or the urgent need to suffocate the viewer. Quite the contrary, Angelopoulos seems to have drawn on the blank canvas of the screen a strange path of colors and sounds that seek our memories that are stuck fiercely on our own experience, and quite gently pushing toward the concept death. A death is not torture, or anguish, but only a final resort but necessary, a hug. The last hug, of course.
The other day, reading pages of cinema in the net I came across one that was billed as "The only cinema page where the critics are bitter. "The joke, which apparently is quite successful, lets out a stupid (in the worst sense of the word) that surprised all and sundry. I would say that one can approach the work of Angelopoulos or Von Trier, Haneke or , and leave with a smile. But you will agree with me if you come out smiling in the screening of "Funny Games" or "Breaking the Waves" , is a chronic jerk. The cinema of truth (the film as art, film and hope, film and content) has managed to reach a capacity for reflection (also metareflexión, which already is commendable) plunges us headlong into the bottomless tunnel of postmodernism. "Eternity and a Day" is not a float, not a movie lively and contains no message full of optimism. There are plans criminally long sequence, a narrative between the confused and frail, some sharp dialogue and concise. Do not spare a word in the entire tape, not a gesture, not a fucking character. Everything is linked to an unrelenting awareness of themselves nostro (our finitude, precisely) invades us when you finish the show.
Only one show in "Eternity and a Day", now that I think.
The spectacle of death itself.
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