Eternity and a Day 1999

Eternity and a Day

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Movie Info

A dying writer (Bruno Ganz), trying to finish the works of a 19th-century poet, rescues a kidnapped child about to be sold.

Genre:

drama
Original Language:

Greek
Director:

Theodoros Angelopoulos
Producer:

Theodoros Angelopoulos, Eric Heumann, Amedeo Pagani, Giorgio Silvagni
Box Office (Gross USA):

$106.5K
Runtime:

2h 14m
Production Co:

Greek Film Center, Paradis Film, Instituto Luce [it], Theo Angelopoulos Films, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Classic, Le Studio Canal +, La Sept Cinema, Eurimages, Intermedia Productions
Sound Mix:

Dolby SR
Aspect Ratio:

Flat (1.37:1)

Cast & Crew

Bruno Ganz
Alexandre

Isabelle Renauld
Anna

Achileas Skevis
The Child

Despina Bebedeli
Alexandre's Mother

Iris Chantziantoniou
Alexandre's Daughter

Helene Gerasimidiou
Urania

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Critic Reviews for Eternity and a Day

All Critics (21) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (20) | Rotten (1)

I was moved and captivated throughout its 132 minutes.

November 15, 2007 | Full Review…

Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
Its long, fluid takes escort us through space and time, to universal themes and broader topicalities, effortlessly fending off charges of hermetic aestheticism.

January 26, 2006 | Full Review…

Geoff Andrew
Time Out
The quiet, hypnotic intensity of the cinematic journey one experiences in Eternity and a Day is a rare and lasting pleasure.

March 5, 2002 | Full Review…

John Mount
Sight and Sound
What had been a realistic work, lyric but realistic, slides into ostentatious symbolism.

October 30, 2001

Stanley Kauffmann
The New Republic
Makes a somber redemption song out of melancholy and infinite sadness, one whose eloquence transcends its stark Andrei Tarkovskyian dankness and somnambulism.

October 30, 2001 | Full Review…

Wesley Morris
San Francisco Examiner
This is not a masterpiece, but it contains moments of rare beauty and its contemplation of life, death, regret, and memory has a subtle power.

October 30, 2001 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

James Berardinelli
ReelViews
Thought poets were a dying species, did you?

November 15, 2007 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

Sandra Contreras
TV Guide
Precisely controlled and confidently poetic.

October 25, 2005 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…

Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid
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June 19, 2005 | Rating: 3/5

Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com
Why put up with so much that seems insufferable? Because at the end of Eternity and a Day, Angelopoulos somehow translates a character from the world of dreams to the world of reality instantaneously, before your eyes.

March 3, 2005

Stuart Klawans
The Nation
It has a great deal of somber beauty to recommend it.

April 17, 2002 | Full Review…

David Sterritt
Film Scouts
Invites and encourages us to reap the blessings of true connection with others.

March 3, 2002 | Full Review…

Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality & Practice

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Audience Reviews for Eternity and a Day

Sep 09, 2009

Well that's diffucult now to write about a film that everybody special critics love it. It's more diffucult to me beacuse T. Aggelopoulos is from Greece to. But realy I was slept in theater for first time. What a boring film so slow ( as the title) that make your nerves crash so empty so nothing give.. Yea great name Aggelopoulos but that's it. If the movie did't take you from hand and travel your mind from the begining, make your hard and your body one with it I think that director lost the game. That's simple my opinion.

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