The Travelling Players (Angelopoulos, 1975): ICA Cinema, 2pm
This film is part of the Theo Angelopoulos season at the ICA Cinema. Details here.Time Out review:
Made, incredibly, under the noses of the military police during the
Colonels' regime, Angelopoulos' film examines, with a passionate
radicalism, the labyrinth of Greek politics around that country's
agonising civil war. This is done through the eyes of a troupe of
actors, whose pastoral folk drama Golfo the Shepherdess is
continually interrupted as they become unwitting spectators of the
political events that ultimately polarise them. This slow, complex,
four-hour film will obviously provide problems for people raised on
machine-gun cutting techniques. Editing is very restrained, and some
takes last up to five minutes, but the stately pace of the film soon
becomes compulsive; and the shabby provincial Greece of rusting railway
tracks and flaking facades which the slow camera examines is visually
beguiling. The closing passage, when one of the actors is buried after
being executed, and his colleagues spontaneously raise their hands above
their heads to applaud not a performance but a life, is an incredibly
moving moment.
Don Macpherson
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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