Eternity and a Day
Synopsis
This Sunday, the rain falling on Salonika is the color of dusk. Alexander, a great novelist, prepares to take his final leave of the house by the sea where he has lived all his life. He comes across an old letter from his wife Anna, in which she writes about a summer’s day thirty years ago. It sets Alexander off on a curious journey in which the present and the past are intertwined. By following the chimerical words of his novels, he has let the happy moments of his life slip through his fingers. Moments he wants to retrieve, for a day ... for eternity.
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Actors (7)
Production and distribution (5)
- Executive Producer : Paradis Films
- Co-productions : Intermedias, La Sept Cinéma
- Foreign production company : Theo Angelopoulos Production
- Film exports/foreign sales : Greek Film Centre / Centre du cinéma grec
- French distribution : AFMD
Full credits (11)
- Executive Producer : Éric Heumann
- Screenwriters : Théo Angelopoulos, Tonino Guerra, Pétros Márkaris, Giorgio Silvagni
- Directors of Photography : Yorgos Arvanitis, Andreas Sinani
- Music Composer : Eléni Karaïndrou
- Editor : Yannis Tsitsopoulos
- Sound recordist : Nikos Papadimitriou
- Costume designer : Yorgos Patsas
- Foreign producers : Giorgio Silvagni, Théo Angelopoulos
- Production Manager : Emilio Konistsiotis
- Press Attachés (film) : Robert Schlockoff, Valérie Chabrier
- Production Designers : Yorgos Patsas, Yorgos Ziakas
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Psychological drama
- Production language : Greek
- Coproducer countries : Greece, France, Italy
- Original French-language productions : No
- Nationality : Minority French (Greece, France, Italy)
- Production year : 1998
- French release : 28/10/1998
- Runtime : 2 h 10 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 91.452
- Visa issue date : 16/10/1998
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.66
- Audio format : Dolby SR
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"Light years from the world of television (no close-ups), commercials (no jerky cutting) and standard narrative technique (no conventional continuity or psychology), Angelopoulos makes the sequence shot sublime, breathes soul into the pan, mummifies the characters, evacuates the frame, populates the soundtrack with offscreen voices, outflanks the actors, slams genres together and explodes chronology. The result is melancholy and slow, dark and hieratic with flashes that stab like shards of glass. It’s as though the sole purpose of this alienation were to engineer the most overturned connections the human mind is capable of making. This stream-of-consciousness cinema composes an elegy to humanity with its bruised childhoods, sold-out revolutions, defunct loves, trampled hopes and utopia reborn."
(Jacques Mandelbaum in “Le Monde”, October 29th 1998)
