Modernist stylization has its place in narrative film, but in this case less would have meant much more.
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11/15/07
Ulysses' Gaze (1995)
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Reviews Counted: 15
Fresh: 6
Rotten:9
Average Rating: 5.3/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 53 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: On the occasion of his return home for a screening, a first-generation Greek-American filmmaker known only as "A" begins the quest of a film historian's lifetime, searching for vintage reels of film shot by two brothers recording ethnic... [More]
Starring: Harvey Keitel, Maia Morgenstern, Erland Josephson, Thanassis Vengos
Director: Theo Angelopoulos
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Reviews for Ulysses' Gaze
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Magisterially filmed, this movie demands at almost every instant to be regarded as a masterpiece, though for me it's too full of itself and its own virtue. Still, I can't deny it's an experience worth having.
11/15/07
Top Critic 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.
02/09/06
The overall effect is genuinely entrancing, with a sense of tragic inevitability that gives meaning to the film's maddeningly attenuated rhythms.
08/30/04
Top Critic Angelopoulos' film is lyrically evocative but painfully self-important.
05/02/01
The film's images are always powerful, even if the dialogue seems superfluous.
01/01/00
This grim travelogue through a landscape of despair lacks internal power. It feels labored and portentous.
01/01/00
Top Critic While it's beautiful, even graceful, and though its heart is in the right place, there's just as much to condemn as there is in its favor.
01/01/00
Top Critic Journalistic fairness compels me to note that this film won a Special Jury Prize at Cannes. However, I strongly suspect that those judges were cowed more than won over. We don't have to make the same mistake.
01/01/00
It has a remoteness, with the viewer always the observer, not the participant.
01/01/00
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