Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow

Trilogia: To livadi pou dakryzei

Greece, France, Italy, Germany

2004

185 Min

Color

1.66:1

Greek

Currently 4.1/5 Stars.
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PROD Theodoros Angelopoulos, Reinhold Elschot, Peter Nadermann, Meinolf Zurhorst

SCR Theodoros Angelopoulos, Tonino Guerra, Petros Markaris, Giorgio Silvagni

CAST Alexandra Aidini, Nikos Poursanidis, Giorgos Armenis, Mihalis Giannatos, Grigoris Evangelatos

MUSIC Eleni Karaindrou

Berlinale (Competition), Berlinale (Tribute)

Director

Theo Angelopoulos began to study law in Athens but broke up his studies to go to the Sorbonne in Paris in order to study literature. When he had finished his studies, he wanted to attend the School of Cinema at Paris but decided instead to go back to Greece. There he worked as a journalist and critic for the newspaper “Demokratiki Allaghi” until it was banned by the military after a coup d’état. Now unemployed, he decided to make his first movie, Anaparastasi (1970). Internationally successful was his trilogy about the history of Greece from 1930 to 1970 consisting of Meres tou ’36 (1972), O thiasos (1975), and Oi kynigoi (1977). After the end of the dictatorship in Greece, Angelopoulos went to Italy, where he worked with RAI (and more money). His movies then became less political. —IMDb

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Sehlem Sebik

28Feb12

http://independent.academia.edu/SehlemSebik/Papers/962935/A_SEMIOTICAL_READING_THE_WEEPING_MEADOW

Michael Convery

28Dec11

As always, superb image after superb image, but the main characters seemed like figures of a beautiful landscape painting magnified to a blur.

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Joshuah

13Dec11

The film rarely allows us to become interested in these characters, hardly the viewer is aware of what they are feeling or doing, and there is almost no point in the film where one can decipher whether the acting is good or not. Some of the imagery is beautiful, but pointless. The story has no purpose in being told. One need to be blind sided to say Theo is without flaws. In this film they are clearly highlighted.