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Movie Info

A (Harvey Keitel) is a Greek filmmaker living in the United States who returns to his native land. There he begins searching for the legendary lost reels of footage shot by film pioneers the Manakia brothers, who journeyed throughout the Balkans documenting its culture. As A's search continues, he travels to various places that stir memories from his youth. He fantasizes about his mother (Maia Morgenstern) and the women from his films, unsure of his own ability to see things clearly.

Genre:

drama
Original Language:

English
Director:

Theo Angelopoulos
Producer:

Eric Heumann, Giorgio Silvagni
Writer:

Theo Angelopoulos, Tonino Guerra, Petros Markaris
Runtime:

2h 57m
Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio:

1.66:1, 35mm

Cast & Crew

Harvey Keitel
A

Maia Morgenstern
'Ulysses' wife

Erland Josephson
S., Filmmuseum curator

Thanasis Vengos
Taxidriver

Yorgos Michalokopoulos
Friend and Journalist

Dora Volanaki
Old Woman

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Critic Reviews for Ulysses' Gaze

All Critics (16) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (5) | Rotten (11)

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.

November 15, 2007 | Full Review…

Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
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.

February 9, 2006 | Full Review…

Geoff Andrew
Time Out
The overall effect is genuinely entrancing, with a sense of tragic inevitability that gives meaning to the film's maddeningly attenuated rhythms.

August 30, 2004 | Rating: 3.5/5

Janet Maslin
New York Times
Angelopoulos' film is lyrically evocative but painfully self-important.

May 2, 2001 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…

Ed Gonzalez
Slant Magazine
This grim travelogue through a landscape of despair lacks internal power. It feels labored and portentous.

January 1, 2000 | Full Review…

Desson Thomson
Washington Post
What arrogance and self-importance this film reveals.

January 1, 2000 | Rating: 1/4 | Full Review…

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
Many of the images have a searing melancholy beauty, but they can also seem hackneyed. Likewise, the ideas underpinning Angelopoulos's gargantuan enterprise -- of the universality of alienation and the impos-sibility of pure art -- are commonplace.

December 7, 2017 | Full Review…

Quentin Curtis
Independent on Sunday
Modernist stylization has its place in narrative film, but in this case less would have meant much more.

November 15, 2007 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…

TV Guide
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October 21, 2005 | Rating: 2/5

Thomas Delapa
Boulder Weekly
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July 18, 2005 | Rating: C+

Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com
If you looked up in a reference book why most people hate foreign films you would probably see pictures of Ulysses’ Gaze staring back at you.

June 10, 2005 | Rating: 3/5

Douglas Pratt
DVDLaser
This ambitious film fails to compel. Too many closeups of disposed Lenin statues.

September 30, 2003 | Rating: 2/5

Moira Sullivan
FilmFestivals.com