Ulysses' Gaze (Angelopoulos, 1995): ICA Cinema, 2pm
This screening is part of the Theo Angelopoulos season at the ICA. Details here.
Time Out preview:
When film-maker A... (Harvey Keitel) returns, after 35 years in the US, to his
hometown in Greece for a retrospective of his work, he takes the
opportunity to pursue an obsession: to track down the missing three
reels of the first film footage ever shot (by the Manakia brothers) in
the Balkans. His odyssey, from Ptolemais through Albania, Macedonia,
Bulgaria and Romania, to Belgrade and Sarajevo, allows for a meditation
on changing borders, national identity, and the relationship of film to
historical and political reality. Angelopoulos' stately epic is hugely
ambitious, and despite some art movie clichés - A's encounters with
various women, each played by the same actress - and some clumsiness in
the English dialogue, by and large it succeeds. Constructed from long
elegant takes, and moving fluidly between naturalism and tableaux-like
theatricality, it's a mesmerising work of arresting beauty and
impressive emotional power.
Geoff Andrew
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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