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- 2005
- New Yorker Films
- 2 h 50 m
- 2005
- New Yorker Films
- 2 h 50 m
Summary The film, the first of a projected trilogy, traces the history of Greece in the 20th century through the story of the relationship between a man and a woman over decades. Part one ends with the Greek civil war after World War II.
Directed By: Theodoros Angelopoulos
- 2005
- New Yorker Films
- 2 h 50 m
- 2005
- New Yorker Films
- 2 h 50 m
Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow
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8.4
Summary The film, the first of a projected trilogy, traces the history of Greece in the 20th century through the story of the relationship between a man and a woman over decades. Part one ends with the Greek civil war after World War II.
Directed By: Theodoros Angelopoulos
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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83% Positive
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
73
83% Positive
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
17% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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Though he's foggy on the specifics, Angelopoulos makes the tides of history felt through each painterly frame.
In his fourth outing with the director, cinematographer Andreas Sinanos produces stunning scene after stunning scene, almost as if each frame were a small painting.
It's a typically poetic film, rich in powerful imagery, which sees a bitter personal tragedy unfold against the major events of 20th century Greece. Although the director doesn't mine any new ground here, either in terms of style or content, it's still a pleasure to sit through nearly three hours of perfectly controlled, visually evocative filmmaking.
Certainly has the look and feel of a masterpiece, but it's missing the emotional core that most moviegoers need.
The Weeping Meadow shares the awed sense of solemn apocalypse with his (Angelopoulos)
signature films, but it's lighter, more musical and folktale-ish.
Unfortunately, instead of the usual larger-than-life male figures--Marcello Mastroianni, Harvey Keitel, Bruno Ganz--of Angelopoulos's recent films, we get a distractingly vapid couple who tend to drain the emotional resonance of these extraordinary, ever-shifting tableaux.
The movie plays like a career summation in which the 68-year-old writer-director has simply run out new ideas.
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Production Company
Theo Angelopoulos Films,
Greek Film Centre (GFC),
Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT),
Attica Art Productions,
Bac Films,
Intermédias,
ARTE,
Canal+,
Classic,
Istituto Luce,
Rai Cinema,
Network Movie Film-und Fernsehproduktion,
ZDF/Arte
Release Date Sep 14, 2005
Duration 2 h 50 m
Awards
European Film Awards
• 1 Win & 5 Nominations
Fajr Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Berlin International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
