The Child: You're smiling but I know you're sad.
Alexandre: I know that one you will leave. The wind pushes your eyes away but today give me this day as if it was the last.
Alexandre: Why, mother, nothing happens as we wish? Why? Why does one have to rot in silence torn between pain and desire? Why did I live my life in exile. Tell me mother, why can't one learn to love?
Alexandre: My only regret, Anna - but is it only one? - is to not have finished anything. I left all as a draft, shattered words here and there.
Alexandre: All passed by so quickly. This suspect pain... my stubbornness to want to learn,to want to know... then the darkness... the silence around me... the silence. All made me believe that before the end of winter with the ethereal silhouettes of the boats,and their sudden breakthroughs in the sky, with the lovers along the promenade,in the declining sun, and the hypocritical promise of the spring, all made me believe that before the end of winter... My only regret, Anna... but is it only one?... is not to have finished anything. I left it all as a draft, shattered words here and there.
Alexandre: I once asked you "how long will tomorrow last?" and you answered me: Eternity and a day.
Alexandre: Why did I only felt at home... when I was able to speak my own language? My own language, when I could find the lost words... or bring the forgotten words out of silence. Why only then I could hear the echo of my own footsteps in the house?

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Cade 2022-03-28 09:01:11

20120606hm master's poetry is always unpretentious. You will be deeply impressed by his soothing narrative rhythm and poetic lens language. The director is using the camera to write poetry, full of poetic metaphors and interpretations. The use of long lenses is extremely elegant, and many lenses are worthy of repeated appreciation. Past and present, fantasy and reality are entangled, sadness is eternal, happiness is only one day. "How long is tomorrow? Forever or a day." 4.5. 3000th
Georgiana 2022-03-25 09:01:19

Long takes often begin or end with a zoom, and the scheduling, soundtracks, and sound effects are brilliant; however Angelopoulos' films have always made a focus on form over an empathic investment, with a style that lends itself to an essentially unadorned emotional subject matter. It is too calm and difficult and unnecessary, but for a larger topic, it shows a lack of abstract form; it also involves death, private memories, feelings of family and country and loneliness. Compared with "Nostalgia", this film is a high judgment. ——So An Shi actually just "changed a style (usually not used for sensationalism) to continue sensationalizing" and failed to rise to the level of intuition or subconsciousness. In this sense, he and Wim Wenders can be described as Shaw Like; they may be essayists, but not poets.