Suspended Step of the Stork, The (Import)
Suspended Step of the Stork, The (Import)
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Eloquent and mystifying, Theodore Angelopoulos' To Meteoro Vima tou Pelargou concerns a Greek television reporter, Alexandre (Gregory Patrikareas), who thinks he has discovered a politician (Marcello Mastroianni) believed dead or in hiding for years. In a remote village populated by refugees, Alexandre meets a shabby wretch (also Mastroianni) who might be the missing politician who vanished a decade before. "All the elements of a first-rate Angelopoulos film are here, from the political undercurrent to the sustained long-shots that are his trademark" (The New York Times).

Theo Angelopoulos -- Greece -- 1991 -- 136 mins.

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  | Doug#8

This is a stunning film in which thematic content arises effortlessly and naturally from the images. It's a deep reflection on the borders that separate nations, tribes, classes, families, and individuals; on the deep attraction of crossing over and the risk of doing so; on the desperate need of individuals to connect across the widest gulfs. The film touches the metaphysical by pressing against the limit of a person's ability to make full sense of what is experienced and suffered. A moving experience.

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