"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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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…

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…

Landscape in the Mist is odyssey of a young teenage girl and her five years old little brother who try to find their father who they believe is alive and living well in Germany. Along that journey these children get to learn about harness of reality, life and face with sexual awakening.

The movie is slow and contemplative. But what really left with me after the movie ended are certain moments. One sequence where kids get out of police station and everyone become tranfixed while gazing at the snow falling transported me to a fantasy world for split seconds. Everything else about this journey is brutal, devastating and slowly eating away all my happiness.

The movie is visually very beauty…

"We don't even known if we're going forwards or back. Then we get lost."
- Voula

I sit here, quietly reflecting on what is simply a breathtakingly artistic piece of film. It's slow in pace, but packs one hell of an emotional punch.

There is very little dialogue in this classic from '88. Every single word is carefully chosen and serves a purpose. Likewise, the story meanders deliberately to it's wonderfully rich conclusion, but never feels like it has lost it's way. The story is always going somewhere.

Theo Angelopoulos directs this movie impeccably. There are moments where you forget this is a film and not a real life observation of two kids growing up, growing cynical, growing more worldly.…

They're sad. Times have changed. Everything's changed.

The theater of my university did a film screening about Theo Angelopoulos and, knowing that he is one of the biggest exponents of classical Greek cinema, I decided to go see it.

A totally contemplative work, with a hypnotic beauty, although somewhat heavy for me. Full of pauses, long shots and scenes so slow-paced that the time seems dead.

I would consider this beautiful film so many things: a road movie, a coming-of-age, but most importantly, a heartbreaking drama story. The innocence of these children compared to the cruelty of a harsh world, and the movie tricks us and gives us glimpses of hope, just for crumble and snatch the happiness we begin…

دیالوگی از فیلم:

وولا: " پدر عزیزم، ما برات نامه نوشتیم چون میخواستیم بیایم و ببینیمت، هیچوقت ندیدیمت و بهت نیاز داریم، همیشه از تو صحبت میکنیم، مامان از اینکه ما اومدیم ناراحت میشه.
ولی فکر نکنی این باعث میشه ما نیایم، و اینکه اون هیچ چیز رو درک نمیکنه. ما نمیدونیم تو چه شکلی هستی، آلکساندرا کلی حرف در این مورد میزنه، اون تورو تو رویاهاش دیده، ما خیلی خیلی بهت نیاز داریم، بعصی وقتا تو راه مدرسه فکر میکنم تو پشتم داری راه میری و صدای قدم هاتو میشنوم اما وقتی برمیگردم میبینم هیچکس نیست و برای همین خیلی احساس تنهایی میکنم. ما نمیخوایم یه بار اضافه باشیم برات. فقط ببینیمت و بعدش میریم."

بعضی‌ صحنه‌ها‌ فقط یـک‌بار…

I love any movie that's a journey; it's just a formula that works so well for me. Whether it's road movies like Easy Rider, religious ones like Silence, or even war films like Come and See, the external representation of the internal journey just really moves me.

"Dear father, we are writing because we have decided to come and find you."

Landscape in the Mist is probably my first slow cinema journey and I cannot believe I hadn't seen it before. It's bleak, it's beautiful, and it's a dark coming-of-age; the two child protagonists are forced to grow up much earlier than any child should. The older sister especially; she takes care of her brother as they face hardships in…

Greece in Theo Angelopoulos’ films always seems to be a land devoid of spirit, a nation with a broken faith. As Voula and Alexander watch the cemented hand of a statue get lifted into the sky, one feels most vividly that the hand of God has left Greece. But within Greece, the larger nation-state organism, are individual lives at play which are either capitualting or fighting against this environment.

Landscape in the Mist is about Voula and Alexander, two children who run away from home to search for their father, a man they have never met before who lives in Germany. The children's journey itself is an act of faith, a pilgrimage to Somewhere. Germany isn't really a place, rather…

My first Angelopoulos film and what a way to begin! I have a sensitivity to children. Being a camp counselor with children around these age has given me a strong emotional connection to films that deal with aspects of childhood so when it comes to a film like Landscape in the Mist, I couldn’t help but be emotionally gripped by the story of two siblings trying to find their father, with the dramatic irony of knowing they’re illegitimate children. One thing I really loved about Angelopoulos as a director, besides the obvious incredible lighting and gorgeous long takes, was the surreal mise-en-scene of the film. There’s the obvious giant statue hand being lifted out of the water by a helicopter,…