"Landscape in the Mist" is Angelopoulos Angelopoulos before . Or preparing for the somersault that would lead to the fabulous "Ulysses' Gaze." I do not know if his earlier work and indicated what was to come (I have a version of "The Voyage of the comic" but admit that his three hours and a half hours give me some lazy a priori) but "Landscape in the Mist" and trace the lines of a mature filmmaker, restless, socially uncomfortable. Their argument remains a Dickensian fable between Homeric and (two brothers decide to take a trip to Germany in search of an unknown father) and his staging is just another example of the peculiar style of Angelopoulos. While it appears that this film is, a priori, more affordable than their "sisters", a story when the director gets tangled in his usual digressions and, short of the barbarity of the wedding in "The Suspended Step of the Stork " the film loses some of bellows and dramatic effectiveness.
is a question that did not stop to ask me over the narration: "Why two hours?" A Angelopoulos lacks the domain of ellipsis, which is something that Kitano can do as God and Kubrick became a cosmic paradox. A Angelopoulos fails him, perhaps, that know how to cut in the exact spot and do not show what might seem superfluous or gratuitous. Although it is not. Beware: I am one who believe that "The Journey of Odysseus" is perfect enough for it not on (or want) a single scene in the entire tape. Metaphor is a closed, compact, solid. However, in this "Landscape in the Mist" One has the feeling that history had been able to count in half an hour, maybe less. A common fault, but on the other hand ... Who are we to decide how much to take a work of art?
"Landscape in the Mist" may be, on the other hand, the film director hardest. The most imbued with a social report (that is the great merit) never or against a military position, or a country, a thinker. There is an implicit anger, and also some bad blood (those who have seen more than enough to know which scene I mean) in the script that is also a fundamental part of the style of Angelopoulos . Although obviously contemplative pace, Angelopoulos is always yelling. It is his artistry as a tragic author: to show the seeds of the tragedy without resorting to cheap film effects. And it is something which, incidentally, seems scarce in the contemporary film scene. Care
then, with this tape. Essential to a comfortable sofa and a certain calm. The enjoyment is, moreover, equally rewarding than in other productions Angelopoulos.
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