Its long, fluid takes escort us through space and time, to universal themes and broader topicalities, effortlessly fending off charges of hermetic aestheticism.
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01/26/06
Eternity and a Day (1998)
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Reviews Counted:21
Fresh:20
Rotten:1
Average Rating:7.3/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 10 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: Eternity And A Day traces the final days of Alexandre (Bruno Ganz), a celebrated Greek writer who is terminally ill, as he prepares to leave his seaside home forever. While packing, he finds a... [More]
Starring: Bruno Ganz, Isabelle Renauld, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Achilleas Skevis
Director: Theo Angelopoulos
Reviews for Eternity and a Day
Top CriticThe quiet, hypnotic intensity of the cinematic journey one experiences in Eternity and a Day is a rare and lasting pleasure.
03/05/02
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03/26/09
Top CriticThought poets were a dying species, did you?
11/15/07
I was moved and captivated throughout its 132 minutes.
11/15/07
Precisely controlled and confidently poetic.
10/25/05
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06/19/05
Why put up with so much that seems insufferable? Because at the end of Eternity and a Day, Angelopoulos somehow translates a character from the world of dreams to the world of reality instantaneously, before your eyes.
03/03/05
It has a great deal of somber beauty to recommend it.
04/17/02
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03/24/02
Invites and encourages us to reap the blessings of true connection with others.
03/03/02
It is a statement about the work of an artist, a collector of diverse elements then molded into a coherent, beautiful whole.
10/30/01
Overall, Angelopoulos' film gives the viewer a sense of the infinite ... even if its languid artiness occasionally lulls you to sleep.
10/30/01
A gorgeous elegy of a film.
10/30/01
A deeply felt character study.
10/30/01
This is not a masterpiece, but it contains moments of rare beauty and its contemplation of life, death, regret, and memory has a subtle power.
10/30/01
Angelopoulos' meditation on the meaning of one man's life is genuinely hypnotic in its way of transcending ordinary narrative.
10/30/01
Top CriticAngelopoulos has created another masterpiece, one that recalls such classics as Bergman's Wild Strawberries and Kurosawa's Ikiru.
10/30/01
Top CriticFor at least half of its length, it is quietly revelatory, luminous and invigorating, and for those reasons it makes essential viewing.
10/30/01
Consider giving this worthy anachronism a couple of hours of your time. If you can tune into its somber, hypnotic wavelength, you may be surprised at the raw emotional impact it delivers in key scenes, and at its ability to provoke your imagination.
10/30/01
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